title: The management of advanced thyroid cancer.
abstract: Although the prognosis of the majority of patients with thyroid cancer is excellent there are some patients with advanced thyroid cancer in whom the prognosis is poor. Such patients include: patients with locally invasive or recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer and medullary thyroid cancer, and all patients with anaplastic cancer. The management of patients with advanced thyroid cancer is reviewed with emphasis on the role of external beam radiotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Oncology, Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Millar
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Brierley
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011379:Prognosis; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D013965:Thyroidectomy