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What is the role of Radioactive Iodine and External Beam Therapy in Follicular Cancer of the Thyroid?

Radioactive iodine and external beam therapy are used in a similar fashion as described for papillary cancer of the thyroid (see the section on papillary cancer).

Thyroid Cancer

  • Why does Thyroid Cancer occur
  • Papillary Cancer
  • Follicular Cancer
    • Presentation
    • Principles of treatment
    • Surgery
    • Radioiodine and radiotherapy
    • Drug therapy
  • Hurthle Cell Tumour
  • Medullary Cancer
  • Anaplastic Cancer
  • Lymphoma

Thyroid

  • What is the thyroid?
  • What can go wrong with the thyroid
  • What is a goitre
  • Thyroid nodules
  • Thyrotoxicosis
  • Graves' disease
  • Thyroid eye disease (TED)
  • Toxic multinodular goitre
  • Plummer's disease
  • Congenital and maternal thyrotoxicosis
  • Hypothyroidism (myxoedema)
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