Paediatric Thyroid Cancer

This webinar aims to underly the most relevant differences with the adults DCT regarding epidemiology, genetics, pathology, immunoistopathology, diagnostic tools and treatment, especially for RAI theranostic procedure. Additionally, the webinar will also go over the main GL recommendations, as well as present and discuss two emblematic or tricky cases.

• The aim of this course is to sensitise the attendees about the correct way to recognise, diagnose and treat DTC in children.

• Physicians, residents with special interest on endocrinlogy and endo-oncology, nuclear medicine specialists, nurses and technicians of nuclear medicine units.

• Francis GL, Waguespack SG, Bauer AJ, Angelos P, Benvenga S, Cerutti JM, Dinauer CA, Hamilton J, Hay ID, Luster M, Parisi MT, Rachmiel M, Thompson GB, Yamashita S; American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force. Management Guidelines for Children with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Thyroid. 2015 Jul;25(7):716-59. doi: 10.1089/thy.2014.0460. PMID: 25900731; PMCID: PMC4854274.
• Lebbink CA, Links TP, Czarniecka A, Dias RP, Elisei R, Izatt L, Krude H, Lorenz K, Luster M, Newbold K, Piccardo A, Sobrinho-Simões M, Takano T, Paul van Trotsenburg AS, Verburg FA, van Santen HM. 2022 European Thyroid Association Guidelines for the management of pediatric thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Eur Thyroid J. 2022 Nov 29;11(6):e220146. doi: 10.1530/ETJ-22-0146. PMID: 36228315; PMCID: PMC9716393.
• Czarniecka A, Woźniak G, Kropińska A, Jarząb B, Handkiewicz-Junak D. Surgical approach to differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC) in children [Specyfika leczenia chirurgicznego zróżnicowanych raków tarczycy (ZRT) u dzieci]. Endokrynol Pol. 2019;70(4):357-366. doi: 10.5603/EP.a2019.0033. PMID: 31489960.