Title	Thyroid Cancer [electronic resource] : A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management / edited by Leonard Wartofsky
Imprint	Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2000
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-199-2
Descript	XX, 516 p. 67 illus. online resource

In Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management, Leonard Wartofsky, MD, past president of the American Thyroid Association, has brought together a panel of world-class clinicians to critically review all aspects of thyroid cancer from pathogenesis to prognosis, including management and treatment. Organized for rapid access by busy physicians, the book covers both differentiated tumors (papillary carcinoma and follicular carcinoma) and undifferentiated cancers (anaplastic carcinoma, lymphoma, and medullary carcinoma), as well as miscellaneous and unusual cancers of the thyroid. For each tumor type the authors succinctly discuss the key aspects of their clinical presentation, cytology, diagnosis, nuclear isotope scanning evaluation, imaging by MRI or CT, surgery, pathology, post-operative care, monitoring, and prognosis. Additional chapters survey future therapeutic directions involving tumor markers, cancer-causing genes, DNA ploidy, new approaches to chemotherapy, and advances in radiotherapy. Authoritative and evidenced-based, Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management provides in one place everything that physicians treating thyroid cancer patients need to know. With its emphasis on practical clinical management, it is today's definitive reference on thyroid cancer

1 The Thyroid Nodule: Pathogenesis, Evaluation, and Risk of Malignancy -- 2 Nonisotopic Imaging of the Neck in Patients with Thyroid Nodules or Cancer -- 3 The Thyroid Nodule: Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy -- 4 The Thyroid Nodule: Medical Management -- 5 Thyroid Nodules and Cancer Risk: Surgical Management -- 6 Molecular Pathogenesis of Thyroid Cancer -- 7 Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer -- 8 Radiation and Thyroid Cancer -- 9 Classification of Thyroid Malignancies -- 10 Thyroid Cancer in Children and Adolescents -- 11 Immunologic Aspects of Thyroid Follicular Neoplasms -- 12 Radioiodine Therapy of Thyroid Cancer: General Considerationsโ{128}{148}I -- 13 Radioiodine Therapy of Thyroid Cancer: General Considerationsโ{128}{148}II Side Effects of Radioiodine Therapy for Thyroid Cancer -- 14 Recombinant Human Thyrotropin -- 15 Chemotherapy for Thyroid Cancer -- 16 Papillary Carcinoma: Clinical Aspects -- 17 Papillary Carcinoma: Cytology and Pathology -- 18 Surgical Approach to Papillary Carcinoma -- 19 Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: Radioiodine Therapyโ{128}{148}I -- 20 Chemotherapy of Differentiated (Papillary or Follicular) Thyroid Carcinoma -- 21 Management of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: External Radiation Therapy -- 22 Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Follow-Up -- 23 Radioiodine Treatment of Thyroid Cancerโ{128}{148}II: Maximizing Therapeutic and Diagnostic 131I Uptake -- 24 An Approach to the Management of Patients with Scan Negative, Thyroglobulin Positive, Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Alternative Imaging Procedures -- 25 Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Prognosis -- 26 Papillary Cancer: Special Aspects in Children -- 27 Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: Clinical Aspects -- 28 Pathology of Follicular Cancer -- 29 Surgical Management of Follicular Cancer -- 30 Follicular Carcinoma of the Thyroid: External Radiation Therapy -- 31 Follicular Thyroid Cancer: Follow-Up -- 32 Follicular Thyroid Cancer: Prognosis -- 33 Follicular Thyroid Cancer: Special Aspects in Children and Adolescents -- 34 Anaplastic Carcinoma: Clinical Aspects -- 35 Anaplastic Carcinoma: Pathology -- 36 Anaplastic Carcinoma Management: Surgery -- 37 Chemotherapy of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer -- 38 Management of Anaplastic Carcinoma: External Radiation Therapy -- 39 Anaplastic Carcinoma: Prognosis -- 40 Thyroid Lymphoma -- 41 Thyroid Lymphoma: Pathology -- 42 Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma -- 43 Medullary Thyroid Cancer: Pathology -- 44 Medullary Carcinoma of the Thyroid: Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Treatment -- 45 Management of Medullary Carcinoma of the Thyroid: Surgery -- 46 Medullary Carcinoma Management: External Radiation Therapy -- 47 Medullary Carcinoma of the Thyroid: Chemotherapy -- 48 Pathology of Miscellaneous and Unusual Cancers of the Thyroid -- 49 Clinical Aspects of Miscellaneous and Unusual Types of Thyroid Cancers -- 50 Thyroid Cancer: DNA Ploidy, Tumor Markers, and Cancer-Causing Genes -- 51 New Approaches to Chemotherapy for Thyroid Cancer -- 52 Advances in Radiotherapy for Thyroid Cancer