Thyroid Cancer: A Case-Based Approach

Now in its second edition utilizing brand new clinical case material, this popular, user-friendly text presents the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer and related clinical issues, providing clinicians in endocrinology and oncology with the best real-world strategies to properly manage the various manifestations of thyroid cancer that they may encounter. Each chapter is a case report that opens with a unique clinical presentation, followed by a description of the diagnosis, assessment and therapy, as well as the case outcome, literature review, clinical pearls and pitfalls, and bibliography. All recommendations are based on evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and recent literature. Written by experts in the field, these cases illustrate treatment for both low- and high-risk differentiated thyroid cancer, including surgical approaches, radioiodine therapy, and novel chemotherapies and targeted therapies, as well as postoperative follow-up and special issues. Additional cases demonstrate the management of medullary thyroid cancer and anaplastic thyroid cancer. Topics new to the second edition include information on management of small thyroid cancers with "active surveillance" (without surgery), new chemotherapeutic approaches to advanced thyroid cancer, and new information on a lesion that is no longer considered to be thyroid cancer (Neoplastic Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Features [NIFTP]), as well as material on external beam radiotherapy and new approaches to the management of anaplastic thyroid cancer. Pragmatic and reader-friendly, this second edition of Thyroid Cancer: A Case-Based Approach will be an excellent resource for clinical endocrinologists and oncologists, endocrine fellows, residents and students alike.

Part I: Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Initial Management -- 1.A Patient with a Single Thyroid Nodule Suspicious for Follicular Neoplasm According to the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology: Molecular Evaluation -- 2.A Young Patient with Intrathyroidal Papillary Thyroid Cancer and Family History of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer -- 3.A Case of a Small (1-2 cm) Papillary Thyroid Cancer in a Young Patient: Lobectomy Versus Total Thyroidectomy -- 4.A Patient with Papillary Microcarcinoma Undergoing Active Surveillance -- 5.Completion Thyroidectomy in a Patient with Low-Risk Papillary Cancer -- 6.A Papillary Thyroid Cancer with Minimal Extra-thyroidal Extension -- 7.A small Papillary Thyroid Cancer with angioinvasion -- 8.A patient with a pathological diagnosis of Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-like Nuclear Features (NIFTP) -- 9.Papillary Thyroid Cancer with Central Neck Lymph Node Metastases -- 10.A Patient with a Large Minimally Invasive Follicular Thyroid Cancer -- 11.A Child with Papillary Thyroid Cancer and Locally Advanced Disease but No Distant Metastasis -- Part II: Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Postoperative Follow-Up -- 12.A Patient wi…