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What is the role of drug treatment in Follicular Cancer of the Thyroid?

Thyroxine treatment is used in the management of follicular cancer in a similar way as in the management of papillary cancer (see the section on papillary cancer).

The role of systemic chemotherapy is limited as it is in papillary cancer. (please see section on papillary cancer).

Thyroid Cancer

  • Why does Thyroid Cancer occur
  • Papillary Cancer
  • Follicular Cancer
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    • Principles of treatment
    • Surgery
    • Radioiodine and radiotherapy
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  • Hurthle Cell Tumour
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  • Anaplastic Cancer
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Thyroid

  • What is the thyroid?
  • What can go wrong with the thyroid
  • What is a goitre
  • Thyroid nodules
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  • Toxic multinodular goitre
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