The role of clinicians in determining radioactive iodine use for low-risk thyroid cancer

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 259-265

  Haymart, Megan R ^a   Banerjee, Mousumi ^b   Yang, Di ^b   Stewart, Andrew K ^c   Koenig, Ronald J ^a   Griggs, Jennifer J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; physician; radioactive iodine; thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOCRINOLOGIST; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; SURGEON; THYROID CANCER; THYROID SURGEON; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872085836     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27721     Document Type: Article

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