New Treatment in Advanced Thyroid Cancer
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New Treatment in Advanced Thyroid Cancer
Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine tumor. Thyroidectomy, radioactive iodine, and TSH suppression represent the standard treatment for differentiated thyroid cancer. Since chemotherapy has been shown to be unsuccessful in case of advanced thyroid carcinomas, the research for new therapies is fundamental. In this paper, we reviewed the recent literature reports (pubmed, medline, EMBASE d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Oncology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1687-8450,1687-8469
DOI: 10.1155/2012/391629