Current practice in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer

Considerable changes have occurred in the management of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) during the past four decades, based on improved knowledge of the biology of DTC and on advances in therapy, including surgery, the use of radioactive iodine (radioiodine), thyroid hormone treatment and availability of recombinant human TSH. Improved diagnostic tools are available, including determining serum levels of thyroglobulin, neck ultrasonography,...