Current issues in thyroid cancer

Current issues highlight some of the latest research into thyroid cancer, new therapies becoming available and new drug treatments coming to the market.

Axitinib gives new hope to thyroid cancer sufferers In patients with advanced thyroid cancer, radioactive iodine therapy can be very effective. However, there are some patients who fail to respond to this and the alternative options are limited. A...
More rapid assays of Serum Thyroglobulin allow quicker ascertainment of Thyroglobulin level and the result of the Iodine-123 sca One of the problems in the management of the patient with thyroid cancer, who is being followed up by both radio-iodine tracer whole body scanning and serial thyroglobulin levels in the serum, is...
Thalidomide therapy in advanced thyroid cancer In a recent trial reported from Kentucky, thirteen out seventeen patients with differentiated (i.e papillary or follicular) thyroid cancer (76%) responded to thalidomide therapy. It is regarded that...
Iodine-123 is a better imaging agent than iodine-131 in thyroid cancer Recent work has shown that the isotope I-123 is a better imaging agent than I-131 and mmost large thyroid cancer centres are moving over to this newer imaging agent for the scan detection of...