Radiation Oncology

Thyroid Cancer

Questions discussed in this category

How do you approach a young patient with metastatic poorly differentiated thyroid cancer with rhabdoid/non-anaplastic features?

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What is the role of radiation therapy for an elderly patient with medullary thyroid cancer who is not a surgical candidate?

What techniques and doses would you prescribe to the primary and regional nodes?

1 Answer available

When would you offer post-operative concurrent chemoradiation in anaplastic thyroid cancer?

Would you consider it for a patient with good PS but with limited metastatic disease? What dose fractionation would you prefer?

1 Answer available

When would you offer radiation for poorly differentiated thyroid cancer?

3 Answers available

Do you prefer rhTSH for TSH stimulation instead of thyroid hormone withdrawal when treating patients with radioactive iodine for papillary thyroid carcinoma?

If not, what is your thyroid hormone withdrawal protocol? If so, would you still treat a patient with possibly metastatic disease?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

N. Engl. J. Med., 2012-05-03

Strategies of radioiodine ablation in patients with low-risk thyroid cancer.

N. Engl. J. Med., 2012-05-03

Ablation with low-dose radioiodine and thyrotropin alfa in thyroid cancer.

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