Feasibility of a randomized trial on adjuvant radio-iodine therapy in differentiated thyroid cancer

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 451-455

  Dragoiescu, C ^a   Hoekstra, O S ^a   Kuik, D J ^a   Lips, P ^a   Piaizier, M A B D ^b   Rodrigus, P T R ^b   Huijsmans, D A K C J M ^c   Ribot, J G ^c   Kuijpens, J ^d   Coebergh, J W W ^d   Teule, G J J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d The Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0037380198     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01738.x     Document Type: Article

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