Thyroid cancer in pediatric age group: An institutional experience and review of the literature

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 93-97

  Kiratli, Pinar Ö ^a   Volkan Salanci, Bilge ^a   Günay, Emel C ^a   Varan, Ali ^b   Akyüz, Canan ^b   Büyükpamukçu, Münevver ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Nuclear Medicine and Pediatric Oncology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

I 131; pediatric; therapy; thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DYSPHONIA; DYSPNEA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIXED TUMOR; NAUSEA; PANCYTOPENIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SALIVARY GLAND SCINTISCANNING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SWELLING; SYMPTOM; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84874499194     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3182755d9e     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Bucsky P, Parlowsky T. Epidemiology and therapy of thyroid cancer in childhood and adolescence. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes. 1997;105(suppl 4):70-73.
2. Baverstock K, Egloff B, Pinchera A, et al. Thyroid cancer after Chernobyl. Nature. 1992;359:21-22.
3. Gilliland FD, Hunt WC, Morris DM, et al. Prognostic factors for thyroid carcinoma. A population-based study of 15, 698 cases from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program 1973-1991. Cancer. 1997;79:564-573.
4. Mazzaferri EL, Jhiang SM. Long-term impact of initial surgical and medical therapy on papillary and follicular thyroid cancer. Am J Med. 1994;97:418-428.
5. Beveridge WI, Sabin LH. International histological classification of tumors of domestic animals. Bull World Health Organ. 1974;50:1-142.
6. Wada N, Sugino K, Mimura T, et al. Pediatric differentiated thyroid carcinoma in stage I: risk factor analysis for disease free survival. BMC Cancer. 2009;9:306.
7. Winship T, Rosvoll RV. A study of thyroid cancer in children. Am J Surg. 1961;102:747-752.
8. McClellan DR, Francis GL. Thyroid cancer in children, pregnant women, and patients with Graves' disease. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 1996;25:27-48.
9. Gorlin JB, Sallan SE. Thyroid cancer in childhood. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 1990;19:649-662.
10. Fassina AS, Rupolo M, Pelizzo MR, et al. Thyroid cancer in children and adolescents. Tumori. 1994;80:257-262.
11. Schlumberger M, Travagli JP, Lemerle J, et al. Differentiated thyroid carcinoma in childhood. Experience at Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Belg. 1987; 41:804-808.
12. La Quaglia MP, Corbally MT, Heller G, et al. Recurrence and morbidity in differentiated thyroid carcinoma in children. Surgery. 1988;104:1149-1156.
13. Samaan NA, Schultz PN, Hickey RC, et al. The results of various modalities of treatment of well differentiated thyroid carcinomas: a retrospective review of 1599 patients. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1992;75:714-720.
14. Tuttle RM, Vaisman F, Tronko MD. Clinical presentation and clinical outcomes in Chernobyl-related paediatric thyroid cancers: what do we know now? What can we expect in the future? Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2011;23:268-275.
15. Zengi A, Karadeniz M, Erdogan M, et al. Does Chernobyl accident have any effect on thyroid cancers in Turkey? A retrospective review of thyroid cancers from 1982 to 2006. Endocr J. 2008;55:325-330.
16. Eser S, Yakut C, Ozdemir R, et al. Cancer incidence rates in Turkey in 2006: a detailed registry based estimation. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2010;11:1731-1739.
17. Bargren AE, Meyer-Rochow GY, Delbridge LW, et al. Outcomes of surgically managed pediatric thyroid cancer. J Surg Res. 2009;156:70-73.
18. Kebebew E, Clark OH. Differentiated thyroid cancer: "complete" rational approach. World J Surg. 2000;24: 942-951.
19. Jarzab B, Handkiewicz-Junak D, Wloch J. Juvenile differentiated thyroid carcinoma and the role of radioiodine in its treatment: a qualitative review. Endocr Relat Cancer. 2005;12:773-803.
20. Kumagai A, Reiners C, Drozd V, et al. Childhood thyroid cancers and radioactive iodine therapy: necessity of precau-tious radiation health risk management. Endocr J. 2007;54: 839-847.