Practical Management of Thyroid Cancer

Dr Ujjal Mallick, MBBS MS FRCPE (Hon) FRCP(Hon) FRCR Consultant Clinical Oncologist Formerly Consultant Oncologist and past Chair, Multidisciplinary thyroid cancer team (MDT), Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, a centre of excellence for thyroid cancer. Chief Investigator of the first UK National Thyroid Cancer Trial -Hilo-( NEJM 2012) which helped modify international guidelines and practice and of the on-going second UK trial-IoN. One of the lead authors of the first UK National guideline. The MDT obtained many prestigious national awards including-Best NHS "Hospital Doctor" Oncology Team of the Year" Award 2007, Best Thyroid cancer MDT in NHS Peer Review 2011, first prize in NHS innovations award 2007 and others. He initiated an acclaimed MD clinic involving an expert thyroid cancer patient. Current interests are trials, biomarkers and guideline implementation. Dr Clive Harmer MB FRCR FRCP. Clinical Oncologist Consultant in Clinical Oncology at St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust and The Royal Marsden NHS Trust (where he was head of the Thyroid unit) until August 2005. Recognized teacher of the University of London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Cancer Research.

1. Pragmatism, Precision Oncology, International Partnership for Research and Quality-The New Paradigm for Thyroid Cancer  

Ujjal Mallick, Clive Harmer

Section I. Multidisciplinary Approach to Management of Thyroid Cancer

 2. The UK Evidence-Based Guidelines   for the Management of Thyroid Cancer: Key Recommendations

Maria G. Pavlatou, Sarah J Johnson, and Petros Perros

3. The 2015 American Thyroid Association Evidence-Based Guidelines for Management of Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer:  Key Recommendations

Bryan R. Haugen

4.   Thyroid Cancer: One Doctor-Patient Partnership -The Newcastle Butterfly Model

Kate A Farnell, RD Bliss, Ujjal K. Mallick

Section II. The Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer

5. Molecular Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules

David N. Poller 

6. Ultrasonography in Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Cancer -Current International Recommendations 

Dong Gyu Na, Ji-Hoon Kim, Eun Ju Ha

Section III. Initial Thyroid Surgery

7. The 21st Century Endocrine Surgeon

Nadine R. Caron, Tracy S. Wang, Cord Sturgeon, Orlo H. Clark

8. Management of Cervical Lymph Nodes in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Hiro Ishii, Dae S. Kim, John C. Watkinson

9. Advances in Thyroid Surgery

Sara L. Richer, Dipti Kamani, GeorgeW.  Randolph

Section IV. Non surgical Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

10. Risk Stratification and Current Management of Low Risk Thyroid Cancer  

Sana A. Ghaznavi, R. Michael Tuttle

11 Management of Low risk Papillary Thyroid Carcinomo and Papillary  Cancer  and Microcarcinoma-the Japanese experience

Yasuhiro Ito and Akira Miyauchi

12   Radioiodine Ablation - Current Status

  Furio Pacini  and Maria Grazia Castagna -- Sienna

13. Dosimetric Approaches  - Current Concepts

Michael Lassmann, Markus Luster, Heribert Hanschield,  Wurzberg, Germany

14. External Radiation in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in the era of IMRT and modern radiation planning techniques

James D. Brierley, Meredith E. Giuliani

Section V. Follow up and Longterm Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

15. Thyroglobulin

Shireen Fatemi, Carole Spencer

16. Management of Post-Operative Hypocalcemia 

Claudio Marcocci

17. Radioiodine Refractory Thyroid Cancer 

Berdelou A, Leboulleux S, Schlumberger M

Section VI. Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

18. Medullary Thyroid Cancer :Surgical Management

Anna I. Kaleva ,A R Shaha, and Iain J. Nixon

19. Medullary Thyroid Cancer: Diagnosis and Non Surgical Management

Rossella Elisei,  Antonio Matrone

20.  Familial Non-Medullary Thyroid Cancer 

Joanna Klubo-Gwiezdzinska, Yevgenia Kushchayeva, Sudheer Kumar Gara, Electron Kebebew 

Section VII. Thyroid Cancer in Children

21. Pediatric Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma

Section VIII. Aggressive Thyroid Cancers

22. Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer

Robert C. Smallridge, John Dr. Casler, and Michael E. Menefee

23. Palliative care

Mary Comiskey

Section IX. Future Developments and Directions for Research in  Thyroid Cancer. 

24.   Translational Research and Genomics Driven Trials in Thyroid Cancer

Maria E. Cabanillas, Rebecca E. Schweppe, Ramona Dadu, Gilbert Cote, Thomas C. Beadnell, Marie Claude Hofmann

25. Thyroid  Cancer  Trials 

 Allan Hackshaw

26. The Barriers to Uniform Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for Thyroid Cancer

Ujjal Mallick, Fabian Pitoia

27. Survivorship: The Role of the Clinical Psychologist and the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Thyroid Cancer Care

Katherine Kendell, Nicola Jane Armstrong