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"Sun's Seven-Step Technique" for Endoscopic En-Bloc Resection of Thyroid Cancer via the Chest-Breast Approach
Published on: November 28, 2025
Management of thyroid cancers
Devendra A Chaukar1, Anuja D Deshmukh, Mitali R Dandekar
1Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, Dr. Ernest Borges Road, Mumbai, 400 012 India.
Abstract:
Thyroid cancers cover a large spectrum of disease with diametrically opposite prognosis. At one end of the spectrum we have the well differentiated cancers which carry an excellent prognosis, while at the other end there is anaplastic cancer with high mortality rates and dismal prognosis. Management of thyroid cancers still has some controversial issues due to lack of randomized controlled trials. Extent of surgery, extent of neck dissection, role of radioiodine treatment and thyroid stimulating hormone suppression are still debatable. In this review, we highlight these controversial issues and give guidelines for the management and follow up of patients with thyroid cancer.
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