objective: the current study aimed to determine the efficacy of radioiodine-131 (131i) ablation therapy with thyroid hormone replacement one day before 131i administration in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer (dtc). methods: this retrospective study included 29 patients who underwent 131i therapies twice for dtc during 6-12 months.  since all the patients obviously had residual l...

thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. this study surveys the pathologic characteristics of thyroid cancerin mashhad and study of papillary carcinoma in more detail. in this retrospective study, 108 out of 197 cases of thyroid cancer were papillary in type (55%), with female to male ratio of 1.91 which is lower than current reports. the age at the time of diagnosis ranged from ...

introduction raman spectroscopy is a vibrational spectroscopic technique, based on inelastic scattering of monochromatic light. this technique can provide valuable information about biomolecular changes, associated with neoplastic transformation. the purpose of this study was to find raman spectral markers for distinguishing normal samples from cancerous ones in different tissues. materials and...

colorectal cancer (crc) metastasis to the thyroid gland is rare. here wereport a 45 yr-old man in western iran referred to hematology clinic, kermanshah city, iran in march 2014 with complaint of exertional dyspnea, multi-nodular goiter as well as complaint of exertional dyspnea, and multi-nodular goiter. his history included a low anterior resection of rectum in 9 months ago for a high-risk st...

ABSTRACT Background and Aim: Considering the increasing trend of thyroid cancer and increased number of new cases we performed this study to determine the risk factors for thyroid cancer in Kurdistan Province. Materials and Methods: 80 patients and 80 controls were matched and entered into this case-control study from September 2009 to September 2016 in Kurdistan Province. Data were colle...

Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. This study surveys the pathologic characteristics of thyroid cancerin Mashhad and study of papillary carcinoma in more detail. In this retrospective study, 108 out of 197 cases of thyroid cancer were papillary in type (55%), with female to male ratio of 1.91 which is lower than current reports. The age at the time of diagnosis ranged ...

Background & objectives: Prognosis of thyroid papillary cancer is quite well long lasting, so a 10- year survival is observed in more than 90% cases. In this study, rate of incidence of thyroid papillary cancer in contralateral lobe was assessed among patients who had a surgical thyroidectomy re-operation. Materials & Methods: In this retrospective study, we examined 82 patients diagnosed with...