Probability Data Could Better Direct Lymph Node Removal for Thyroid Cancer
Surgeons operating on patients with advanced thyroid cancer are often conflicted when deciding how many lymph nodes they should remove to reduce the patient’s risk of recurrence. If surgeons don’t evaluate enough lymph nodes, they could leave cancer behind; but extensive surgery close to structures such as nerves, the voice box and parathyroid glands can...
High-dose vitamin D supplementation may help ward off chronic immune-mediated diseases like type 1 diabetes (T1D), Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Previous studies have shown that vitamin D deficiency has been linked to immune-mediated diseases. (We...
What: “Saul Hertz, Radioiodine and the Origins of Nuclear Medicine” lecture. Where: Massachusetts General Hospital’s Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation, 2 North Grove St., Boston, Mass., 02114 When: Tuesday April 5, 6 p.m (one day after ENDO 2016). RSVP: [email protected]. Join James Thrall, MD, chairman emeritus, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital for a...
January 2016: Thyroid Month: The Saga of Radioiodine Therapy
More patients are taking the dietary supplement biotin, which could be throwing off a number of test results from thyroid cancer to Graves’ disease. The thyroid test results made no sense, so the patient’s primary care physician sought help from an endocrinologist. The physician had been treating the patient’s hypothyroidism successfully with levothyroxine for some...
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