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'''Thyroid cancer''' is cancer of the [[thyroid gland]].<ref name="pmid12583960">{{cite journal| author=Sherman SI| title=Thyroid carcinoma. | journal=Lancet | year= 2003 | volume= 361 | issue= 9356 | pages= 501-11 | pmid=12583960
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==Classification==
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==Prognosis==
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==Treatment==
===Chemotherapy===
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Thyroid cancer is cancer of the thyroid gland.[1]

Classification

Differentiated tumors

The differentiated thyroid cancers are:[2]

  • Papillary
  • Follicular

Poorly differentiated tumors

  • Medullary
  • Anaplastic

Epidemiology

A study of autopsies in Finland found that 36% of subjects had papillary thyroid cancer.[3]

Thyroid cancer may be present 5-10% of patients with thyroid nodules including incidentalomas.[4]

Staging information

Thyroid cancer staging information from the National Cancer Institute's Physician Data Query


Prognosis

Thyroid cancer - survival.

Treatment

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is usually reserved for poorly differentiated tumors, medullary[5] and anaplastic[6] thyroid cancer.

References

  1. Sherman SI (2003). "Thyroid carcinoma.". Lancet 361 (9356): 501-11. PMID 12583960.
  2. Schlumberger MJ (1998). "Papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma.". N Engl J Med 338 (5): 297-306. PMID 9445411.
  3. Harach HR, Franssila KO, Wasenius VM (August 1985). "Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. A "normal" finding in Finland. A systematic autopsy study". Cancer 56 (3): 531–8. PMID 2408737[e]
  4. Tan GH, Gharib H (February 1997). "Thyroid incidentalomas: management approaches to nonpalpable nodules discovered incidentally on thyroid imaging". Ann. Intern. Med. 126 (3): 226–31. PMID 9027275[e]
  5. Medullary Thyroid Cancer. National Cancer Institute. Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
  6. Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer. National Cancer Institute. Retrieved on 2010-04-13.