Guidelines
for the management
of thyroid cancer
1. Access to a multidisciplinary thyroid cancer team x
2. Patient focus x
3. Prognostic factors, staging, risk stratifi cation and management of
uncertainty in differentiated thyroid cancer x
4. Presentation, diagnosis and referral x
5. Ultrasound assessment of thyroid nodules x
6. Fine-needle aspiration cytology xi
7. Surgery for differentiated thyroid cancer xi
8. Management of papillary microcarcinoma xi
9. Radioiodine remnant ablation and therapy for differentiated
thyroid cancer xi
10. External beam radiotherapy for differentiated thyroid cancer xii
11. Post-treatment follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid
cancer xii
12. Recurrent / persistent differentiated thyroid cancer xii
13. Long-term follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer xii
14. Thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer in pregnancy xii
15. Pathology reporting, grading and staging of thyroid cancers xiii
16. Medullary thyroid cancer xiii
17. Anaplastic thyroid cancer xiii
18. Thyroid cancer: a guide for general practitioners xiii
19. Research and audit xiii