Essentials of Thyroid Cancer Management

Basic Thyroid Anatomy.- Thyroid and Parathyroid Physiology.- Pathology and Classification Of Thyroid Carcinoma.- The American Joint Committee on Cancer System of Staging Thyroid Cancer.- The Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer.- Definitions: Thyroid Uptake Measurement, Thyroid Scan, and Whole Body Scan.- Thyroid Stunning.- The Role of a Diagnostic Radioiodine Whole Body Scan (DxWBS).- The Value of a Post-Treatment Whole Body Scan.- Examples of Radioiodine Whole Body Scans.- Computerized Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging of Thyroid Cancer.- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) of Thyroid Cancer.- Neck Ultrasonography in Patients with Thyroid Cancer.- Incidence, Prevalence, Recurrence, and Mortality of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Factors that Predict Cancer Recurrence and Death from Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- A Total Thyroidectomy Rarely Removes All Thyroid Tissue.- Neck Dissections to Remove Malignant Lymph Nodes.- Potential Complications of Thyroid Cancer Surgery.- Half-Life and Emission Products of I-131.- Choosing the Activity of I-131 for Therapy.- Requirements for Outpatient Release Following I-131 Therapy.- A Checklist of Things to do at the Clinic Visit Prior to I-131 Therapy.- A Checklist of Things to do on the Day of I-131 Administration.- Documents that Facilitate I-131 Scheduling and Patient Education.- The Low-Iodine Diet.- Intravenous Iodinated Contrast Effects Iodine Uptake for Months.- Measuring Urinary Iodine (UI).- Using Lithium Carbonate to Increase the Effectiveness of I-131.- Thyroid Hormone Withdrawal to Elevate TSH.- Recombinant Human TSH: Background Information and Standard Protocol.- Using rhTSH Prior to I-131 Therapy.- I-131 Therapy in a Patient with a Small Thyroid Remnant.- I-131 Therapy in a Patient with a Large Thyroid Remnant.- Effects of Suppressing Thyrotropin on Tumor Growth and Recurrence.- Potential Side Effects and Complications of I-131 Therapy.- Management of Xerostomia, Taste Impairment and Dental Prophlaxis.- An Overview of Follow-Up of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Follow-Up of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Using Serum Thyroglobulin Measurements.- Overview of Management of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma in Patients with Negative Whole Body Radioiodine Scans and Elevated Serum Thyroglobulin Levels.- Treatment Guidelines When the Only Evidence of Disease is an Elevated Serum Thyroglobulin Level.- Treatment of Residual Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in the Neck and Mediastinum.- Treatment of Lung Metastases from Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Treatment of Bone Metastases from Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Treatment of Spinal Cord Compression from Metastatic Thyroid Cancer.- Treatment of Brain Metastasis from Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer During Pregnancy.- Thyroid Cancer Originating in a Thyroglossal Duct Remnant.- Tall and Collumnar Variants of Papillary Carcinoma.- Diffuse Sclerosing Variant of Papillary Carcinoma.- Hürthle Cell Carcinoma.- Insular and other Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinomas.- Anaplastic Carcinoma.- Diagnosis and Management of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.- External Beam Radiotherapy Dose Schedules.- Indications for External Beam Radiation Therapy for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Sequencing of I-131 and External Beam Radiation Therapy for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Indications for EBRT for Medullary and Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma.- Conventional Radiotherapy Technique for Treating Thyroid Cancer.- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Thyroid Cancer.- Drawing Target Volumes for IntensityModulated Radiation Therapy for Thyroid Cancer.- Potential Toxicity of External Beam Radiotherapy for Thyroid Cancer.- Resource Websites.