Follicular thyroid cancer - Sanjay Manohar's Medical Browser
Follicular thyroid cancer
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Effects
Raised thyroglobulin
Parents
Carcinoma of thyroid
Treatments
Total thyroidectomy
Radioiodine therapy
Description
"15% of thyroid cancer Blood spread Not as hormone responsive as Papillary type Treatment: Total Thyroidectomy+ Adjuvant Thyroxine postop+ Adjuvant Ra Iodine for distant metastasis Prognosis: No mets = 90% survival Mets= 30% survival"
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Sanjay Manohar
2006