title: [Beam radiotherapy in treatment of thyroid carcinoma (author's transl)].
abstract: There is a particular variety of therapeutic resources for thyroid carcinoma (surgery, radioiodine treatment, external radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormonotherapy) with some peculiar characters for each of these. Just for this fact the clinic indications and the value of each of these therapies aren't easy. The authors study a group of 156 patients with thyroid carcinoma, selected among the patients treated with beam radiotherapy at the Istituto del Radio "O. Alberti" of Civil Hospitals of Brescia from 1960 to 1977. The aim of this paper is to give an help to the definition of the value of external radiotherapy given to thyroid carcinoma and to their spreading in regional lymph nodes. The analysis of the clinical findings has allowed to state some factors which affect the prognosis of these tumors: pathology, age, hormono-dependence, radioiodine trapping. According to these factors, separately evaluated for each pathological variety of thyroid carcinoma, has been possible to state the rules for which we can advice the use of external radiotherapy in the treatment of these tumors.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000453:epidemiology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D013965:Thyroidectomy
vernacular_title: La radioterapia a fascio collimato nella programmazione terapeutica dei carcinomi della tiroide.