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Thyroid Cancer - References
SYMPTOMS & TREATMENTS
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- What Happens
- What Increases Your Risk
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Citations
National Cancer Institute (2009). Thyroid Cancer (PDQ): Treatment—Health Professional Version. Available online: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/thyroid/healthprofessional.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (2009). Thyroid carcinoma. NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology, version 1. Available online: http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/thyroid.pdf.
Other Works Consulted
American Thyroid Association Guidelines Taskforce (2006). Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid, 16(2): 1–33. Also available online: http://www.thyroid.org/professionals/publications/documents/Guidelinesthy2006.pdf.
Clark OH, et al. (2008). Thyroid. In AH Ko et al., eds., Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy: How Cancer Is Diagnosed, Treated and Managed Day to Day, 5th ed., pp. 863–873. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel.
Cooper DS, et al. (2007). The thyroid gland. In DG Gardner, D Shoback, eds., Greenspan's Basic and Clinical Endocrinology, 8th ed., pp. 209–280. New York: McGraw-Hill.
National Institutes of Health (2006). Preparing to Receive Radioactive Iodine: The Low-Iodine Diet. NIH Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health. Available online: http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/patient_education/pepubs/lowio.pdf.
Sarkar SD (2004). Management of thyroid cancer. Applied Radiology, 33(11): 34–45.
| By: | Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: November 4, 2009 |
| Medical Review: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology | |
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