A Clinical Review of Thyroid Cancer at Sapporo Medical University Hospital.
Thyroid cancer is a disease that affects 8,000 new individuals a year, a number that has increased approximately 3-fold in the past 30 years. The increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer can be related to various factors. The evolution of diagnostic technology has distinctly occurred in the fields of diagnostic imaging, cytology and immunochemistry. For example, liquid-based cytology, developed to assess gynecological lesions, has improved diagnostic accuracy over conventional smear cytology. This technique can also be positively applied to cytological analyses of thyroid cancer. In the field of tumor biomarkers, thyroglobulin and trefoil factor-1 are well known and useful. On the other hand, a new specific biomarker of thyroid cancer has been developed. Furthermore, definitive diagnosis of follicular thyroid tumors is extremely difficult or impossible with current tumor biomarkers and cytological methods. Although the standard treatment for thyroid cancer is a basic surgical resection, iodine adjuvant therapy after surgery is a well-known treatment. Here we present a treatment strategy for thyroid cancer according to the statistics obtained at our facility.
Junichi
J
Koizumi
Kenichi
K
Takano
Kazufumi
K
Obata
Keisuke
K
Yamamoto
Kosuke
K
Murayama
Tetsuo
T
Himi
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