Practical Management of Thyroid Cancer

Foreword by Sir Richard Bayliss Preface An overview of the management of thyroid cancer.- SECTION I The UK multidisciplinary approach to management of thyroid cancer: The UK evidence-based guidelines for the management of thyroid cancer: Key recommendations.- Thyroid cancer multidisciplinary team and the organisational paradigm.- Thyroid cancer from the perspective of a patient.- The role of the specialist nurse.- The role of the clinical psychologist.- SECTION II The diagnosis of thyroid cancer: Thyroid nodules.- Thyroid cancer and the general practitioner.- The role of the pathologist.- Thyroid cancer and the endocrinologist.- SECTION III Initial thyroid surgery: The specialist endocrine surgeon.- Initial Thyroid surgery for patient with differentiated thyroid carcinoma.- Management of cervical lymph nodes in differentiated thyroid cancer.- Complications of thyroid surgery.- SECTION IV Non-surgical management of differentiated thyroid cancer: Non-surgical management of thyroid cancer.- Fertility following treatment with iodine-131 for thyroid cancer.- SECTION V Follow-up management of differentiated thyroid cancer: Recombinant human TSH (rhtsh): use in papillary and follicular thyroid cancer.- Thyroglobulin.- Follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma.- Management of differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients with negative whole body radioiodine scans and elevated serum thyroglobulin levels.- SECTION VI Medullary thyroid carcinoma: medullary thyroid cancer - diagnosis and management.- Nonmedullary thyroid cancer and the role of the geneticist.- SECTION VII Thyroid cancer in children: Thyroid cancer in childhood.- Radiation induced thyroid cancer - lessons from chernobyl.- The use of stable potassium iodide (KI) in the event of a nuclear emergency.- SECTION VIII Diagnostic imaging studiesfor thyroid cancer: Ultrasound of the thyroid.- diagnostic nuclear medicine investigations in the management of thyroid cancer.- CT and MRI in thyroid cancer.- SECTION IX Papillary microcarcinoma: Papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid.- SECTION X Aggressive thyroid cancers: Rare thyroid cancers.- Management of anaplastic thyroid cancer.- Specialist palliative care for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.- SECTION XI Future developments and directions for research in thyroid cancer: Emerging therapies for thyroid cancer.- Clinical trials for thyroid carcinoma - past, present, and future