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Postoperative Follow-up And Radioiodine Therapy Of Thyroid Cancer
Dr. Mustafa KİBARa
aNükleer Tıp ABD, Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, ADANA
Radioiodine (I-131) therapy has been in use for the treatment of thyroid diseases since 1940s. However its use in therapy for well-differentiated thyroid cancer is still controversial. This is because thyroid cancers are generally slow growing tumours and the patients have usually low mortality and normal survival. The preferred treatment is total thyroidectomy and in selected patients radioactive iodine can be used to ablate residual thyroid tissue or to treat functioning metastases in lymph nodes and distant sites. There are two important methods to follow these patients; the whole-body scan with radioiodine, and measurement of serum thyroglobulin.Keywords: Thyroid cancer, papillary cancer, follicular cancer, radioiodine (I-131) therapy, thyroglobulinTurkiye Klinikleri J Surg Med Sci 2007, 3(49):99-104
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