Thyroid Cancer

• 1. Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer.- 2) Ionizing Radiation and Thyroid Cancer.- 3) Molecular Pathogenesis of Tumors of Thyroid Follicular Cells.- 4) Pathogenesis of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.- 5) Pathologic Features of Thyroid Tumors.- 6) Thyroid Nodules: Approaches to Diagnosis and Management.- 7) Pathogenesis and Treatment of Multinodular Goiter.- 8) Cytopathology of Thyroid Nodules.- 9) The Role of Medical Imaging in the Diagnosis and Follow-up of Recurrent or Metastatic Thyroid Cancer.- 10) Surgical Management of Thyroid Cancer.- 11) Thyroid Cancer: Impact of Therapeutic Modalities on Prognosis.- 12) Radioiodine and External Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Thyroid Cancer.- 13) Rare Forms of Thyroid Cancer.- 14) Chemotherapy and Biological Therapy of Thyroid Cancer.

'Thyroid Cancer, edited by James A. Fagin, comprehensively discusses all the important issues related to this subject. This book will appeal to a broad spectrm of researchers and practitioners, including endocrinologists, nuclear-medicine specialists, and oncologists. As an endocrinologist facing the management of thyroid cancer daily, I enjoyed reading this book and learned from it.' Furio Pacini in The New England Journal of Medicine, 341:26 (1999)