A new study seeks to establish a clinical guideline to quantify the risk of metastatic lymph nodes in thyroid cancer patients. The findings should go a long way to help ease the mind of the patients…and the physicians. With thyroid cancer incidence on the rise, especially papillary thyroid cancer, surgical tumor resection is a critical... A new study seeks to establish a clinical guideline to quantify the risk of metastatic lymph nodes in thyroid cancer patients. The findings should go a long way to help ease the mind of the patients…and the physicians. With thyroid cancer incidence on the rise, especially papillary thyroid cancer, surgical tumor resection is a critical...
Although it’s an “off-label” procedure that has only been mastered by a handful of surgeons in the U.S., some patients are opting for a robotic transaxillary thyroidectomy simply to avoid a prominent scar. When a 43-year-old Florida woman needed thyroid surgery, she consulted several surgeons in several states in her search for her best option....
The history of the treating the thyroid with radioiodine is, in a word, colorful. There is no doubt that this single element changed the way patients are treated and diseases are diagnosed, but its long history is fraught with battles in labs, universities, prestigious medical journals, and even World War II. In November 1936, Saul...
Much cheaper, less invasive, and whole lot cuter than a fine-needle aspiration biopsy, thyroid cancer-sniffing dogs have a remarkable success rate. But will the medical community — as well as patients — accept these canine diagnosticians? They spotted him wandering around the parking lot of local shopping center. The stray German Shepherd mix was in...
