Website Resources

 

Contents

  1. 1 Internet—Web Sites
    1. 1.1 American Thyroid Association
    2. 1.2 American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
    3. 1.3 Hormone Foundation.
    4. 1.4 Johns Hopkins Thyroid Cancer Center  
    5. 1.5 CancerNet:
    6. 1.6  PubMed:
    7. 1.7 American Cancer Society
    8. 1.8 American Foundation of Thyroid Patients
    9. 1.9 The Endocrine Society
    10. 1.10 Thyroid Foundation of America
  2. 2   We hope that you find this information helpful.   Terms of Use  
  3. 3 Hard Cover Books
    1. 3.1 1. Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients
    2. 3.2 2. Could It Be My Thyroid?
  4. 4 3. Your Thyroid: A Home Reference 
    1. 4.1 4. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Overcoming Thyroid Problems
    2. 4.2 5. Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management
    3. 4.3 6. Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology
    4. 4.4 7. Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands.

 

Internet—Web Sites

 

American Thyroid Association

Treatment guidelines and patient education materials
on thyroid cancer, hypothyroidism, and other topics.
 They have  geographic list of thyroid specialist physicians. www.thyroid.org 
 
 

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists

(clinical guidelines for treatment of thyroid cancer, hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, and other endocrine disorders, plus list of specialists) www.aace.com
 
 
 

Hormone Foundation.

Public education affiliate of the professional association The Endocrine Society. Has list of specialists. www.hormone.org
 
 

Johns Hopkins Thyroid Cancer Center  

 
 
 

CancerNet:

 
Information from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health
 
 

 PubMed:

 
National Library of Medicine of National Institutes of Health:  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
 
 

American Cancer Society

General cancer information, as well as information about thyroid cancer. www.cancer.org

 

American Foundation of Thyroid Patients

4322 Douglas Avenue  Midland, Texas 79703

 

The Endocrine Society

Suite 900 8401Connecticut Avenue
Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815
(301) 941-0200 www.endo-society.org
 
 


 

Thyroid Foundation of America

 

1 Longfellow Place, Suite 1518
Boston, Massachusetts 02114
(800) 832-8321  www.allthyroid.org
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We hope that you find this information helpful.
 
 

Hard Cover Books

These in-depth reference books and resources received content review from  the Thyroid Cancer Survivors Association's patient/caregiver review committee and by members of ThyCa's Medical Advisory Council.
 
 

1. Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients

 
Douglas Van Nostrand, M.D., Gary Bloom, and Leonard Wartofsky, M.D., editors. Foreword by Ernest L. Mazzaferri, M.D., M.A.C.P. (336 pages, illustrated with photographs, charts, line drawings, Keystone Press, 2004, 336 pages). An in-depth reference. Chapter authors include 18 physicians from many specialties (including several ThyCa medical advisors), plus 5 other specialists, 4 thyroid cancer patients, and a caregiver. 
 

2. Could It Be My Thyroid?

 Sheldon Rubenfeld, M.D. 3rd Edition, M. Evans and Co., 2004. Information about all thyroid diseases, including thyroid cancer.

 

3. Your Thyroid: A Home Reference 

 
Lawrence Wood, M.D. David S. Cooper, M.D., and E. Chester Ridgway, M.D. 4th edition, Ballantine Books, 2005. About all thyroid diseases.
 
 

4. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Overcoming Thyroid Problems

 
Jeffrey R. Garber, M.D. with Sandra Sardella White. McGraw-Hill, 2005. About all thyroid diseases.
 
 

5. Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management

 
 2nd edition, Leonard Wartofsky, M.D., and Douglas Van Nostrand, M.D., editors. Medical Textbook, Humana Press, 2006.
 
 

6. Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology

 
 7th edition, Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D., Samuel Hellman, M.D., Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., editors. Medical Textbook, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,2005. (2,900 pages: cancer research, causes, treatments, prevention. Includes a chapter on thyroid cancer.)
 
 

7. Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands.

 
Gregory W. Randolph, M.D., editor. Medical textbook with many chapters on thyroid cancer management. Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier Sciences, 2003.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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