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Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management
Second edition. Edited by Leonard Wartofsky and Douglas Van Nostrand. 708 pp., illustrated. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 2006. $195. ISBN 1-58829-462-5.

Management of Thyroid Cancer and Related Nodular Disease
By I. Ross McDougall, with Gerald J. Berry. 397 pp., illustrated. London, Springer-Verlag, 2006. $189. ISBN 1-85233-965-9.

The prognosis for patients with differentiated thyroid cancer is generally very good, with a survival rate of more than 90 percent. However, approximately one third of patients with this diagnosis eventually have a recurrence of their disease. Because of the good prognosis, the indolent nature of this disease, and the behavior of the recurrences, treatment plans for thyroid cancer are derived almost entirely from large retrospective case series and consensus views of good practice. This reliance on the best available (but imperfect) evidence probably will not change, especially because a prospective trial . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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