Old and New Insights in the Treatment of Thyroid Carcinoma

الملخص EN

Thyroid cancer is the endocrine tumor that bears the highest incidence with 33 550 new cases per year.

It bears an excellent prognosis with a mortality of 1530 patients per year (Jemal et al.; 2007).

We have been treating patients with thyroid carcinoma during many years without many innovations.

Recently, we have assisted to the development of new agents for the treatment of this disease with unexpected good results.

Here we present a review with the old and new methods for the treatment of this disease.