[Current management of thyroid malignancies].
Approximately 5000 new cases of thyroid cancer are diagnosed each year in France. These cancers affect mainly people who are middle-aged or older, and predominantly women. The principal varieties are papillary and follicular, far ahead of medullary and anaplastic cancers and thyroid lymphomas. Most patients have forms that are histologically well differentiated, develop slowly and can be cured. Their management must be multidisciplinary for it requires competence in surgery, pathology, nuclear medicine and endocrinology.
Do Cao
Christine
C
Service d'Endocrinologie, Clinique Endocrinologique Marc Linquette, CHRU de Lille, Lille Cedex, France. c-docao@chru-lille.fr
Wémeau
Jean-Louis
JL
D000368:Aged; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000453:epidemiology; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D015996:Survival Rate; D017741:Survivors; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*