thyroid cancer
Thyroid nodules (JAMA 2018;319:914) Papillary thyroid cancer Follicular thyroid cancer Anaplastic thyroid cancer (Endo Metab Clin NA 2019;48:269) Medullary thyroid cancer (Endo Metab Clin NA 2019;48:285)
Post-operative treatment
- TSH suppression therapy with thyroxine oral tab
- Mechanism
- thyroid cancer expresses the TSH receptor on the cell membrane
- TSH stimulate increasing the rate of cell growth
Radioiodine therapy
- Remnant ablation: detection of 💨 recurrence ( 👁️ follow up with thyroglobulin) TG as 🃏 tumor marker
- anti-Tg Ab
- Adiuvant therapy: decreased risk of recurrence
- RAl therapy: treat known persistent disease