"Thyroid Cancer: Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy" ed. by Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar

This book is for medical doctors with experience in the field of thyroid cancer. It comprises different subjects, especially the advances in the diagnosis of thyroid cancer with PET imaging and elastography, as well as the new therapeutic approaches with tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Thyroid cancer is the eighth most common type of cancer and is most frequently diagnosed among people aged 45-54. Nearly three out of four cases are found in women, while about 2% of thyroid cancers occur in children and teenagers.

Contents
Preface
1 Dr. Saul Hertz (1905–1950) Discovers the Medical Uses of Radioactive Iodine: The First Targeted Cancer Therapy
2 Molecular Alterations and Expression Dynamics in the Etiopathogenesis of Thyroid Cancer
3 Atypia of Undetermined Significance/Follicular Lesion of Undetermined Significance (AUS/FLUS): Interpretation and Algorithm for Follow-Up
4 Elastography: A New Ultrasound Technique in Nodular Thyroid Pathology
5 The Advantages and Limitations of Ultrasound Elastography in Diagnosis of Thyroid Carcinoma
6 FDG PET in Thyroid Cancer
7 124I PET: Pretherapeutic Staging, Detection of Recurrent Thyroid Cancer and Dosimetry
8 Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma with Elevated Thyroglobulin and Negative Radioiodine Whole-Body Scan Metastases
9 Emerging Therapeutic Approaches for the Most Aggressive Epithelial Thyroid Cancers
10 A Perspective on the Current Medical Approach of Advanced Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
11 Management of Rare Thyroid Malignancies
12 Radiation Dosimetry in Thyroid Cancer Patients
13 Thyroid Cancer in Children and Adolescents