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Thyroid Cancer

Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research ((RECENTCANCER,volume 73))

Abstract

Although the stage of the disease has clearly to be taken into account, the management of patients with malignant disease of the thyroid gland depends largely on the pathological diagnosis. It is appropriate therefore, before discussing treatment, to look at the histological classification of thyroid tumours (Table 1).

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  1. Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Hammersmith Hospital, London, W12 OHS, GB

    A. W. G. Goolden

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  1. Department of Radiotherapy, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, GB

    William Duncan

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Goolden, A.W.G. (1980). Radiotherapy. In: Duncan, W. (eds) Thyroid Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81325-2_11

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