Thyroid Cancer 101: After childhood Hodgkin lymphoma. Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1,136 patients who were diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) before age 17 years. At 40 years after a diagnosis of HL, the highest risk of thyroid cancer was...
More info
Thyroid cancer 101: Familial Medullary thyroid cancer FMTC and Non-Medullary thyroid cancer. FNMPTC. Dr.Guttler’s Comments: Family members must be aware of thyroid cancers can be familial. Medullary thyroid cancer MCT can be screened with a...
More info
Thyroid Surgery 101: Complications Are Uncommon But when they occur they can be severe and life threatening. Dr.Guttler’s comments: Always get outside opinions before thyroid surgery. You may not need surgery. You could been referred to a...
More info
Thyroid Cancer History 101: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist Died of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer In 2004, the high court announced that Chief Justice William Rehnquist had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Little was known of the...
More info
Hypothyroid 101: Physician’s Hypothyroid therapy options. DR.Guttler’s Comments: No Evidence to Justify Switching to T3/T4 combo, T3 alone , or animal products now. Physicians beware switching away from monotherapy with LT4 may be bad...
More info
Thyroid Cancer 101: White People Have More Thyroid Cancer? Maybe. DR.Guttler’s comments White people were 1.6 times more likely to get thyroid cancer compared to non-whites. 1100 FNAs done in this study. 4.9 % of non-whites had...
More info
Thyroid Cystic Nodules 101: What are you waiting for? Safe and effective Ethanol Ablation PEI is the treatment of choice not surgery! Just Say No the Surgery Large cysts can be done without surgery PEI is endorsed by major societies in the...
More info
Thyroid Cancer 101: Third World Thyroid Cancer Congress II : What did We learn about Monitoring after thyroid cancer surgery. De-escalate Excessive Imaging Just say No Too Many Modalities and too Much Imaging Less is more for low...
More info
Thyroid Cancer 101: Third World Thyroid Cancer Congress II : What did We learn about Radiation therapy after thyroid cancer surgery? De-escalation of Radioiodine therapy Just Say No! The patient must say no to radioiodine therapy...
More info
Thyroid Cancer 101: Third World Thyroid Cancer Congress II : What did We learn about thyroid cancer surgery? The key finding reported was the decline in surgery for primary therapy of papillary micro-cancers. “Less is more” is also...
More info
Thyroid Cancer 101: Third World Thyroid Cancer Congress II : What did We learn about cytology ? Bethesda Reporting system new update has three ways to handle indeterminate thyroid nodules. Careful evaluation of every biopsy to be sure the...
More info
Thyroid Cancer 101: Third World Thyroid Cancer Congress: What did We learn? Thyroid cancer genetic makeup is the least complex of the cancers. 95% of all the thyroid cancers “driver mutations” have been identified. Genetic landscape...
More info