Thyroid Cancer

Thyroid cancer was first described at the end of the eighteenth cen­ tury. For one and a half centuries surgery remained the only effective therapeutic option for this cancer, until in 1946 radioiodine therapy was performed for the first time. Radioiodine therapy was brought to Germany 4 years later, in 1950. In the intervening 50 years, the use of iodine-131 has proved able to cure the cancer and its metastases. Per­ cutaneous radiation therapy had been added to the therapeutic ar­ mamenta...