Content of Essentials of Thyroid Cancer Management (Springer Science) 2005 :
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND PROCESS ADMINISTRATION
INTRODUCTION
- 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
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND PROCESS ADMINISTRATION
- 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 TSH 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
- Hurthle 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 Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Thyroid Cancer
- Potential Toxicity of External Beam Radiotherapy for Thyroid Cancer
- Resource Websites