Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
MicroRNA (miRNA) expression profiles can be used to identify an aggressive type of papillary thyroid cancer that is often otherwise difficult to detect, according to data to be presented on Oct. 2, 2008 at the 79th Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) in Chicago, IL.
Newswise (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Genetic testing of thyroid nodules offers a new tool to diagnose thyroid cancer.
Newswise (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is proud to honor James A. Fagin, M.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, N.Y., with the 2008 Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Lectureship Award. Dr. Fagin presented his lecture, "Insights into Thyroid Cancer Pathogenesis: Clinical and Therapeutic Relevance," today at the ATA's 79th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Ill., where he also received the...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
By Remy, Herve Borget, Isabelle; Leboulleux, Sophie; Guilabert, Nadine; Lavielle, Frederic; Garsi, Jerome; Bournaud, Claire; Gupta, Severine; Schlumberger, Martin; Ricard, Marcel ^sup 131^I treatment in thyroid cancer patients may induce side effects, including extrathyroidal cancer and leukemia.
Wonderful World of #14 (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Today Mama Fick (on the right, sister Tara in the middle) had to undergo some fairly complicated surgery on her throat. Years ago she battled thyroid cancer and won so we feared the worst when she was told a few weeks ago there was a tumor in her throat and it had to be removed. She opted for surgery right away instead of waiting for tests to come back because she and my Dad have a cruise to go on...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
University of Iowa researchers have developed a new imaging approach for identifying a rare form of thyroid cancer that is typically hard to diagnose. Accurate diagnosis of the cancer, known as poorly differentiated thyroid cancer (PDTC), can help physicians choose the best treatment for the patient.The study results, which appear in the Sept.
Newswise (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Researchers have developed a new imaging approach that helps identify poorly differentiated thyroid cancer, a rare form of thyroid cancer that is typically hard to diagnose. The study also raises the possibility of extending the use of radioiodine therapy to thyroid cancers where the gland cannot be surgically removed.
Celebslam (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Lou Lumenick hit Roger Ebert Lou Lumenick, a film critic for the New York Post, hit famed critic Roger Ebert last weekend at the Toronto Film Festival. The incident occurred after Ebert, unable to speak since undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer in 2002, tried to get Lumenick to move so he could read the subtitles [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
MUM-OF-TWO Cath Mullinder was given financial support after cancer stopped her from working. Cath, who is an assistant social worker for Macmillan Cancer Support, was earlier this year diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The disaster of atomic bomb in Japan is not a forgettable event in the history of human civilization. The massive destruction and death witnessed by the world is a horrendous story of past which every one would like to forget but it comes up again and again in different form to remind us. The aftermath of 1945 is still haunting the population in Japan. The recent research findings by American Association...
Curing Death by Curing Aging (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults
Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Washington, August 31 : A new
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Washington, August 31 (ANI): A new research has led to the discovery that an atomic bomb explosion in a particular area can lead to thyroid cancer in survivors at the onset of adulthood. The research, carried out by Japanese scientists, took the case of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were [...]
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers.
grandi13.com (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
There are so many different types of cancer and they each affect the body in as many different ways. I have had thyroid cancer contained within a goiter, benign breast biopsy, and a suspicious mole and surrounding tissue removed from my leg. I have watched my dad and a brother suffer from [...]
