For more information on thyroid cancer, please visit http://www.mskcc.org/thyroidcancer Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sloankettering Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sloan_kettering Physicians at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center answer a variety of questions such as risk factors for thyroid cancer, frequency of locally recurrent disease after initial treatment, the importance of experience in using and interpreting imaging data, side effects of radioactive iodine, clinical trials for thyroid cancers that do not respond to radioactive iodine, and the shift toward individualized treatment. {partial transcript} This is a very active area of investigation that has really seen the fruits of its labor over the past five to ten years. Even with more aggressive cancer, there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic? There is much more hope now than there was ten years ago. You talked a bit about before about folks of a certain age receiving radiation therapy for tumors that turned out to be benign. For instance, in children, the thymus gland was enlarged and it turned out to be normally enlarged. Unfortunately, we thought that was bad and a certain population of people ended up with thyroid cancer, secondary to their radiation therapy. Can we talk about risk factors for thyroid cancer and if there’s anything that we can do to avoid some of these risk factors? I’m not sure about how to avoid it, but regarding radiation, there is quite a bit of radiation from the diagnostic imaging in our general population….
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