Thyroid Cancer

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIII

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2. Basics

   1. The Changing Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer

      • R. Görges

      Pages 3-27

   2. Histopathology, Immunohistochemistry, and Molecular Biology

      • F. Hofstädter

      Pages 29-56

   3. Familial Differentiated Carcinoma of the Thyroid

      • M.R. Carlisle, I.R. McDougall

      Pages 57-70

   4. The Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer

      • C. Reiners

      Pages 71-81

   5. The Current Surgical Approach to Non-Medullary Thyroid Cancer

      • O. Gimm, H. Dralle

      Pages 83-92

3. Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

   1. Radioiodine Therapy for Thyroid Cancer

      • M. Dietlein, D. Moka, H. Schicha

      Pages 95-126

   2. 124I Positron Emission Tomographic Dosimetry and Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

      • L.S. Freudenberg, A. Bockisch, W. Jentzen

      Pages 127-138

   3. External Beam Radiotherapy

      • M. Biermann, M.K. Pixberg, A. Schuck, N. Willich, A. Heinecke, O. Schober

      Pages 139-161

   4. Thyroid Cancer: Treatment with Thyroid Hormone

      • P.-M. Schumm-Draeger

      Pages 163-170

   5. Treatment with Cytotoxic Drugs

      • B. Saller

      Pages 171-186

   6. Redifferentiation Therapy of Thyroid Carcinomas with Retinoic Acid

      • D. Simon

      Pages 187-197

   7. Follow-up of Patients with Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

      • B. Shapiro, J. Freitas, M. Gross

      Pages 199-219

   8. Thyroglobulin as Specific Tumor Marker in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

      • R. Görges, A. Bockisch

      Pages 221-237

   9. Functional Imaging of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

      • F. Grünwald

      Pages 239-250

   10. Magnetic Resonance Imaging

       • J.H. Risse

       Pages 251-282

   11. Thyroid Cancer in Chernobyl Children

       • C. Reiners, J. Biko, E.P. Demidchik, V. Drozd

       Pages 283-293

4. Medullary Thyroid Cancer

   1. Diagnosis of Medullary Thyroid Cancer

      • F. Raue, K. Frank-Raue

      Pages 297-309

   2. Imaging in Medullary Thyroid Cancer

      • T.M. Behr, W. Becker

      Pages 311-333

   3. Therapy for Medullary Thyroid Cancer

      • O. Gimm, H. Dralle

      Pages 335-345

One of the main reasons for publishing this second edition of “T- roid Cancer” is the fact that the first edition has sold out. Furth- more, during the 4 years following the publication of the first edition in 2001, some progress, mainly in the basic sciences (molecular biology), has been made. The most prominent change in the clinical sciences has been the new classification of thyroid cancer, especially with relation to T1–T3 tumors. Now, tumors with a diameter of up to 2 cm are still classified T1. This new UICC classification (6th edition) follows the classification of the American Society of Pathology. These changes require a modification of the old guidelines. According to the Hedinger classification (1988) tumors with a diameter below 1 cm were classified as “papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid”. Only in those tumors was total or nearly total thyroidectomy deemed unn- essary and I-131 therapy not a prerequisite for treatment. The majority of the chapters has been updated including references to many new publications. Two new chapters, on I-124 PET and - simetry, have been added. We strongly feel that this second edition of “Thyroid Cancer” is again a state-of-the-art overview of the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer. Bonn, Frankfurt am Main H. -J. Biersack, F. Grünwald Preface to the First Edition Thyroid cancer was first described at the end of the eighteenth c- tury.

• Scintigraphy
• Tumor
• cancer
• carcinoma
• classification
• computed tomography (CT)
• diagnosis
• dosimetry
• histopathology
• imaging
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• positron emission tomography (PET)
• radiation
• radiotherapy
• surgery

RAD Magazine, July, 2006: "This latest edition is packed full of facts, updated references and illustrations ... If your everyday care involves thyroid cancer patients, this book is a must."

• Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany

  H.-J. Biersack

• Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  F. Grünwald

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