Thyroid Cancer
This review discusses pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of early-stage and advanced thyroid cancer.
Thyroid follicular cells give rise to papillary (84%), follicular (≈4%), and oncocytic (≈2%) forms thyroid cancer.
Surgery with or without radioactive iodine is curative in most cases of thyroid cancers that are 1cm or larger.
For metastatic disease with genetic mutations, antiangiogenic multikinase inhibitors and targeted therapies could be used.
