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    Thyroid Cancer



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    Citations

    1. National Cancer Institute (2007). What You Need to Know About Thyroid Cancer (NIH Publication No. 07-4994). Available online: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/thyroid.

    2. National Comprehensive Cancer Network (2011). Thyroid carcinoma. NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology, version 2. Available online: http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/pdf/thyroid.pdf.

    Other Works Consulted

    • American Cancer Society (2011). Cancer Facts and Figures 2011. Atlanta: American Cancer Society. Available online: http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc-029771.pdf.

    • American Thyroid Association Guidelines Taskforce (2009). Revised American Thyroid Association management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid, 19(11): 1167–1214. Also available online: http://thyroidguidelines.net/revised/taskforce.

    • Cooper DS, et al. (2007). The thyroid gland. In DG Gardner, D Shoback, eds., Greenspan's Basic and Clinical Endocrinology, 8th ed., pp. 209–280. New York: McGraw-Hill.

    • National Cancer Institute (2011). Thyroid Cancer (PDQ): Treatment—Health Professional Version. Available online: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/thyroid/HealthProfessional.




    By: Reference Healthwise Staff Last Revised: Reference October 22, 2012
    Medical Review: Reference E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
    Reference Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology


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