Main description:

This is a single-authored, authoritative, readable volume covering all aspects of thyroid cancer. The text is supplemented with many illustrations including pathology, thyroid and whole-body scans, ultrasounds and other nuclear medicine and radiological studies and highlights important questions that patients should ask their physicians, indicating the topics the physician should cover. The text is designed for physicians, including primary care doctors, endocrinologists, nuclear medicine physicians, general and head and neck surgeons, oncologists and radiation oncologists. It is expected that patients with thyroid cancer would find this a substantial resource. Other groups are residents, medical students, and nurse practitioners researching a patient-related problem.

Contents:

Thyroid Cancer, Epidemiology and Overview.- Thyroid Anatomy and Physiology.- Thyroid Pathology.- Thyroid Nodule.- Etiology of Thyroid Cancer.- Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Children.- Thyroid Cancer and Pregnancy.- Anaplastic Carcinoma of the Thyroid.- Medullary Cancer.- Primary Lymphoma of the Thyroid.- Metastases to the Thyroid.