Cancer Thyroid Endocrine Disorders

Cancer Thyroid Endocrine Disorders

Cancer

Thyroid cancer is made up of thyroid cells whose DNA has changed so that they do not die when they should - they continue to grow and form one or more tumours. It often presents as a single "nodule" (small tumour) in the thyroid. Thyroid cancer can also spread to areas outside the thryoid. There are four types of thyroid cancer. Treatment of most types of thyroid cancer has a very high success rate.

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- Study reports the incidence rates in Florida almost doubled over the 1990–2000 period.
- Explores treatment options, prevention, screening, clinical trials, statistics and research.
- Offers news and information about the prevention, treatment and cure of thyroid cancer. A charity site that also provides details on volunteering and fundraising.
- Review article March 2004, aimed at medical audience. Includes treatment recommendations.
- Personal website with well-informed rants, blog, and a list of celebrities with thyroid cancer.
- Site built by patients with the help of members of the medical community. Contains facts about all types of thyroid cancer and their treatments. Features a support network and a Low Iodine Cookbook.
- Detailed explanation of causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
- Article describing gene mutation discovered in papillary thyroid carcinomas that developed in Chernobyl residents.
- Genzyme's site describing their drug (a manufactured form of thyrotropin) and its potential role in thyroid cancer follow-up tests.
- Summary article for physicians. This link goes to the papillary page, which briefly discusses unusual variants, such as tall-cell, oxyphilic, columnar. There are links to eMedicine pages on follicular, medullary, and anaplastic, as well as thyroid nodul
- Information for patients and families. Treatment, medication, specialist information and tools. You can create your own "thyroid page", and find specialists (US only).
- From the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. Explains risk factors, process of diagnosis (including staging systems), and treatment options. Features continuing medical education resources for physicians.
- Press release about first study to document dose-relationship between radiation and incidence of thyroid cancer.
- An introduction to the different types of cancer, nodules, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.
- Press release describing early stage research that may lead to a drug to help fight anaplastic thyroid cancer.
- Discusses the different types, causes, detection, diagnosis and treatment.
- Pathology lecture notes and pictures of thyroid disease, including thyroid cancer.
- An explanation of the difference between microscopic areas of thyroid cancer, and "clinically important" tumours.
- United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) 2000 Report.
- Medical and surgical guidelines for the management of nodules and carcinoma. From the AACE (American Assoc. of Clinical Endocrinologists). Aimed at physicians.
- Abstract of article describing a case of columnar cell variant of thyroid cancer. Includes photographs.
- Medullary Thyroid Cancer site. Built by a layperson but covering the usual topics of causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
- Presents research, symptoms, treatments, and clinical trials. Includes news, a support group and message board.
- Aimed at UK physicians. From the Royal College of Physicians, UK.

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