Main description:

Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts involved in the development of standards and guidelines for its management in the USA, UK, Europe and Asia, the book contains succinct and knowledgeable summaries of the management of thyroid cancer. Every chapter describes a different aspect of care, and provides clear and detailed information about caring for patients with this group of tumors.

This is an invaluable reference to health care professionals, from primary to tertiary care, involved in the management of thyroid cancer such as clinical nurse specialists, clinical psychologists, family medicine practitioners, specialists in palliative care (especially for anaplastic thyroid cancers), geneticists and surgeons, endocrinologists, oncologists, pathologists, and radiologists.

Contents:

1. Pragmatism, Precision Oncology, International Partnership for Research and Quality-The New Paradigm for Thyroid Cancer

Ujjal Mallick, Clive Harmer

Section I. Multidisciplinary Approach to Management of Thyroid Cancer

2. The UK Evidence-Based Guidelines for the Management of Thyroid Cancer: Key Recommendations

Maria G. Pavlatou, Sarah J Johnson, and Petros Perros

3. The 2015 American Thyroid Association Evidence-Based Guidelines for Management of Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Key Recommendations

Bryan R. Haugen

4. Thyroid Cancer: One Doctor-Patient Partnership -The Newcastle Butterfly Model

Kate A Farnell, RD Bliss, Ujjal K. Mallick

Section II. The Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer

5. Molecular Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules

David N. Poller

6. Ultrasonography in Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Cancer -Current International Recommendations

Dong Gyu Na, Ji-Hoon Kim, Eun Ju Ha

Section III. Initial Thyroid Surgery

7. The 21st Century Endocrine Surgeon

Nadine R. Caron, Tracy S. Wang, Cord Sturgeon, Orlo H. Clark

8. Management of Cervical Lymph Nodes in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Hiro Ishii, Dae S. Kim, John C. Watkinson

9. Advances in Thyroid Surgery

Sara L. Richer, Dipti Kamani, GeorgeW. Randolph

Section IV. Non surgical Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

10. Risk Stratification and Current Management of Low Risk Thyroid Cancer

Sana A. Ghaznavi, R. Michael Tuttle

11 Management of Low risk Papillary Thyroid Carcinomo and Papillary Cancer and Microcarcinoma-the Japanese experience

Yasuhiro Ito and Akira Miyauchi

12 Radioiodine Ablation - Current Status

Furio Pacini and Maria Grazia Castagna -- Sienna

13. Dosimetric Approaches - Current Concepts

Michael Lassmann, Markus Luster, Heribert Hanschield, Wurzberg, Germany

14. External Radiation in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in the era of IMRT and modern radiation planning techniques

James D. Brierley, Meredith E. Giuliani

Section V. Follow up and Longterm Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

15. Thyroglobulin

Shireen Fatemi, Carole Spencer

16. Management of Post-Operative Hypocalcemia

Claudio Marcocci

17. Radioiodine Refractory Thyroid Cancer

Berdelou A, Leboulleux S, Schlumberger M

Section VI. Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

18. Medullary Thyroid Cancer :Surgical Management

Anna I. Kaleva ,A R Shaha, and Iain J. Nixon

19. Medullary Thyroid Cancer: Diagnosis and Non Surgical Management

Rossella Elisei, Antonio Matrone

20. Familial Non-Medullary Thyroid Cancer

Joanna Klubo-Gwiezdzinska, Yevgenia Kushchayeva, Sudheer Kumar Gara, Electron Kebebew

Section VII. Thyroid Cancer in Children

21. Pediatric Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma

Steven G. Waguespack, Jonathan D. Wasserman

Section VIII. Aggressive Thyroid Cancers

22. Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer

Robert C. Smallridge, John Dr. Casler, and Michael E. Menefee

23. Palliative care

Mary Comiskey

Section IX. Future Developments and Directions for Research in Thyroid Cancer.

24. Translational Research and Genomics Driven Trials in Thyroid Cancer

Maria E. Cabanillas, Rebecca E. Schweppe, Ramona Dadu, Gilbert Cote, Thomas C. Beadnell, Marie Claude Hofmann

25. Thyroid Cancer Trials

Allan Hackshaw

26. The Barriers to Uniform Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for Thyroid Cancer

Ujjal Mallick, Fabian Pitoia

27. Survivorship: The Role of the Clinical Psychologist and the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Thyroid Cancer Care

Katherine Kendell, Nicola Jane Armstrong