Talk:Thyroid cancer

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What about medullary or anaplastic thyroid cancer? I'm not an expert and therefore don't feel qualified to contribute, but I'd appreciate if someone did.

Well, you could list them on the page, and someone else will build the article from there. That is the power of the wiki. JFW | T@lk 00:20, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Role of iodine 2 Diagnosis 3 Papillary thyroid cancer & Chernobyl 4 Annual scans not recommended any more (Follicular and Papilliary)?

[edit] Role of iodine

We all know about iodine prophylaxis for radiation incidents, but to mention this concept in the intro was a bit too much. Now I have no idea where to put it; does this apply to all four forms of TC or just to follicular or papillary?

Is there any use for radiotherapy in anaplastic TC? JFW | T@lk 16:30, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Diagnosis

I put some random info in the diagnosis section, and dumped a ref. or two at the bottom of the page, but I'm not really qualified to edit this: Just interested because my wife got a nodule (good to see it's probably nothing bad!!) --Slashme 12:46, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Papillary thyroid cancer & Chernobyl

I am not a doctor, but I heard on RFI that papillary thyroid cancers is necessarily induced by radioactivity. Has anyone here any info about that? It would help avert an edit-war on the Chernobyl disaster article, since a French study by the Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire claims that no "direct links can be found between the increase of thyroid cancers in France and Chernobyl radioactive fallout", although it also states that papillary thyroid cancers have tripled since Chernobyl. This, according to RFI (who was interviewing the CRIIRAD and the French Association of THyroid-Affected Patients), means the study contradicted itself, and that there is in fact a direct link observable between Chernobyl and the increase of thyroid cancer. Can anybody here confirm or infirm if papillary thyroid cancers are always induced by radioactivity? Lapaz 17:21, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

It's impossible to show that thyroid cancers are always induced by radioactivity, since there is always background radiation present. There is incontrovertible evidence, however, that exposure to excess radiation leads to increased risk of thyroid cancer. —Brim 16:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Annual scans not recommended any more (Follicular and Papilliary)?

Is this true? Is there are reference for this?

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Verilog (talk • contribs). 00:53, 8 August 2006