The treatment of metastatic thyroid disease |
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| Authors: | K Y Lee J M Loré |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Otolaryngology, State University of New York, Buffalo School of Medicine. |
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| Abstract: | 1. Removal of all resectable disease commensurate with reasonable morbidity and mortality is the initial treatment of all thyroid carcinoma. 2. Patients with no evidence of recurrent metastatic well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma should be placed on suppressive doses of Synthroid. 3. 131I is utilized for nonresectable and for distant metastatic well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma. External radiation therapy and chemotherapy are utilized in recurrent or metastatic thyroid carcinomas that do not concentrate 131I. |
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