Thyroid Cancer - Head and Neck Cancer

LINKS

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: Thyroid cancer   

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Thyroid cancer 

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Head and neck cancers

PRESS RELEASES

"HPV-Positive Tumor Status Indicates Better Survival in Patients with Oropharyngeal Cancer" - The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA - www.mdanderson.org 

Blood Vessel Inhibitor Shows Promise Against Metastatic Thyroid Cancer - Press release / Comunicato stampa - The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA - www.mdanderson.org

LITERATURE SELECTION

Schlumberger M et al.: "Strategies of radioiodine ablation in patients with low-risk thyroid cancer", N Engl J Med. 2012 May 3;366(18):1663-73

Castro MR et al.: "Predictors of malignancy in patients with cytologically suspicious thyroid nodules", Thyroid. 2011 Nov;21(11):1191-8

Pellegriti G et al.: "Papillary Thyroid Cancer Incidence in the Volcanic Area of Sicily", J Natl Cancer Inst 2009 Nov 5. [Epub ahead of print]

Taylor AJ et al.: "Risk of thyroid cancer in survivors of childhood cancer: results from the British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study", Int J Cancer 2009 Nov 15;125(10):2400-5

Swaak-Kragten AT et al.: "Multimodality treatment for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma - Treatment outcome in 75 patients", Radioter Oncol 2009 Jul: 92(1): 100-4

Eloy JA et al.: "The Significance and Management of Incidental [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron-Emission Tomography Uptake in the Thyroid Gland in Patients with Cancer”, Am J Neuroradiol  Apr 2. [Epub ahead of print]

Kim SJ et al.: "Clinical implication of F-18 FDG PET/CT for differentiated thyroid cancer in patients with negative diagnostic iodine-123 scan and elevated thyroglobulin", Eur J Radiol 2009 Apr;70(1):17-24 

Koc M et al.: "Thyroid Dysfunction in Patients Treated With Radiotherapy for Neck”, Am J Clin Oncol 2009 Apr; 32(2) 150-153

NEWS 

Gum disease and cancers of the head and neck:

"Chronic periodontitis is an independent risk factor for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma"  - (Tezal M et al.: "Chronic periodontitis and the incidence of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma", Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Sep;18(9):2406-12)

I-131 and thyroid neoplasia

I-131 and thyroid neoplasia – Journal of the American Medical Association

EDITORIALS

Control of nodal metastases in patients with squamous cell head and neck cancer treated with non-surgical modalities - Marije R. Vergeer 

Differentiated thyroid cancer and prognostic factors - Catharina Ihre Lundgren

PET and the detection of disease in residual neck nodes following (chemo)radiotherapy in head and neck cancer - Sandro V Porceddu

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