PPT-Session 1 (tutorial session): Radiation and Thyroid Cancer

Summary Many patients with thyroid cancer were found in the Fukushima Health Management survey and people are worried about the effects of radiation from the accident The global incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing sine approximately 30 years. www.thyroid.orgThyroid SurgeryQUESTIONS AND CONSIDERATIONSWhen thyroid surgery is recommended, patients should ask several questions regarding the surgery including:Are there other means of treatment? Bradley . Burton, . PharmD. , BCOP, . CACP. September 13, 2014. 1. Disclosure. No personal or financial disclosures to report. This continuing education activity contains discussion of published and/or investigational uses that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indication, contraindications, and warnings.. Shadows in the Dark. Mark H. Lewy, M.D.. Chief Medical Director. Guardian Life Insurance Co.. Goals of this talk. Understand the diagnostic modalities. Plain . Xray. Mammography. Ultrasound. CT (Computerized Tomography) Imaging. neoplasms. Thyroid Cancer accounts for 1.5% of all cancers. in the US. Six deaths per 1 million people occur annually.. The most common endocrine malignancy accounts for 95% of all endocrine cancers. Nidal. . Younes. . MBBSc. Professor of endocrine Surgery. Jordan University Hospital. Thyroid cancer. It is the most common endocrine cancer. Thyroid cancer is the fastest increasing cancer in both men and women.. Shadows in the Dark. Mark H. Lewy, M.D.. Chief Medical Director. Guardian Life Insurance Co.. Goals of this talk. Understand the diagnostic modalities. Plain . Xray. Mammography. Ultrasound. CT (Computerized Tomography) Imaging. V.K.. . Ivanov. Chairman, Russian Scientific Commission on Radiological Protection. . Medical Radiological Research Center . National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry. The International Workshop on . By . Hatim. . Jaber. MD MPH JBCM PhD. 19 -12- 2018. 1. Presentation outline. Time. Introduction : Epidemiology and Overview of Thyroid Dysfunction. 11:00– 11:10. Risk factors . . of Thyroid Dysfunction. Dr Dominic Agius. Head Malta National Cancer Registry. 20. th. October, 2017. 1 March 2020 Show - Me - Tips Coding...Abstrac�ng...Educa�on … Ed 20:01 Thyroid This project was supported in part by a coopera�ve agreement between the Centers fo Director, Chernobyl Tissue Bank . (. www.chernobyltissuebank.com. ). gerry.thomas@imperial.ac.uk. HEALTH . EFFECTS OF . NUCLEAR . POWER . INCIDENTS – WHERE CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS COMBINE TO DRIVE BIOLOGY. RD. LD. FRANK AYIMADU . (ONCOLOGY DIETITIAN). 10/29/2021. 2. THE THYROID GLAND. 10/29/2021. 3. Functions of the thyroid gland. 10/29/2021. 4. THYROID hormones . The thyroid Produces hormones called the T3 and T4 using two components. It is the 2. nd. most common cancer amongst Saudi women.(1). Incidence in Saudi : 800 cases in 2011.(1). A 2012 Saudi study showed that 87.8% of Saudis are vitamin D (. vit.D. ) deficient(<50 nmol/L).(2). Dr.Lilianne. Haj Hassan. 29/3/2016. Thyroid carcinoma. Thyroid carcinoma is uncommon . Life time risk of being diagnosed with thyroid carcinoma is less than . 1% (less than 1.5% of all adult cancers).