Personalized Treatment Strategies for Thyroid Carcinoma
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 4077
Special Issue Editors
2. Nuclear Medicine/PET-Centre, Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
Interests: (para)thyroid imaging; thyroid cancer; multimodal imaging; ultrasound; positron emission tomography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Personalized medicine” has become the guiding principle for thyroid cancer management. Gone are the days when every patient with thyroid cancer would undergo total thyroidectomy followed by radioiodine ablation.
Instead, there has been progress on multiple fronts:
- New insights into the epidemiology of thyroid cancer which, for selected patients, can be followed with imaging rather than operation.
- Improvements in fine-needle cytology including molecular biology.
- New approaches to imaging with [18F]FDG including PET/MRI as well as new tracers such as [18F]FDOPA or [18F]tetrafluoroborate (TFB).
- Hemithyroidectomy instead of total thyroidectomy. Alternatively, percutaneous ablation or remote access surgery.
- Continuous intraoperative neuromonitoring.
- Autofluorescence for intraoperative identification of parathyroid glands.
- Refinements in postoperative risk assessment: Which patient needs adjuvant radioiodine treatment? How much TSH suppression should we aim for and for how long?
- Finally, several groups have succeeded in conducting large nation-wide prospective randomized trials.
This Special Issue of Cancers encompasses new research articles and timely reviews on major new approaches for individualized, risk-adapted management of thyroid cancer.
Prof. Dr. Martin Biermann
Dr. Katrin Brauckhoff
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- differentiated thyroid cancer
- medullary thyroid cancer
- thyroid surgery
- thyroidectomy
- radioiodine treatment
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