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Santos, MD
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Thyroid cancer issues
Incidence Risk group stratification
Pathology Selection of therapy
Exploiting biology Follow up
Practice patterns Future directions
Prognostic factors
•Fifth most common cancer in women
•incidence rates of thyroid cancer in both women and men have been increasing in
recent years
•the most rapidly increasing cancer diagnosis in the United States
•Thyroid cancer ranks 7th overall, 4th in females and 17th in males. Thyroid cancer
is the most common cancer of women at age 15-24.
Trends in incidence of Thyroid cancer and
papillary tumors by size in the United States
Papillary
20 Follicular
Medullary
Anaplastic
65
Papillary
Tall Cell
Thyroid Poorly
Insular Anaplastic
Follicular differentiated
Cell etc
Follicular
Mortality
Exploiting Biology for Management
Differentiation
Exploiting Biology for Management
Differentiation
Iodine avidity & RAI scan
Prognosis in thyroid cancer