Guidelines for the management of thyroid cancer.
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Acknowledgements Grateful thanks are expressed to the many reviewers of these guidelines. These included leading international experts in thyroid cancer, hospital specialists, and general practitioners. They devoted much time and care to considering the document and their recommendations and suggestions for improvements were most valuable. Special thanks to patient leaders who worked on the patient information leaflets: Judith Taylor (British Thyroid Foundation), Kate Farnell (Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust), Liz Glenister (HypoparaUK), Jo Grey (Association for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Disorders – AMEND), Janis Hickey (British Thyroid Foundation) and Helen Hobrough (Thyroid Cancer Support Group – Wales). The authors also wish to thank Joanne Mullen, Librarian Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Bernadette Coles, Cancer Research Wales Library, for performing the literature searches.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical endocrinology
دوره 58 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003