This is a candid interview with Dr. Gary Clayman about thyroid cancer surgery and making sure a patient receives the best available care. Dr. Clayman has performed more than four hundred thyroid cancer operations per year for over twenty years among patients ranging from 6 months to 100+ years of age. Nearly half of Dr. Clayman’s patients have undergone failed initial surgery for their thyroid cancer by another surgeon or have recurrent, persistent, or aggressive thyroid cancer. If it pertains to thyroid surgery or thyroid cancer, there is likely nothing that he hasn’t seen. Dr. Clayman left the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in the fall of 2016 to form the Clayman Thyroid Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida If someone is considering surgery, Dr. Clayman discusses important topics, including: Do not let a doctor operate on you unless the surgeon can prove to you that he/she has done a minimum of 150 annual thyroid surgeries, and for a minimum of ten years. This means, do not see a surge...
Roberto Valcavi MD, FACE, ECNU Reggio Emilia, Italy RFA for benign nodules, for cystic nodules, for hyper functioning nodules, benign nodules, and now for malignant micro-papillary tumors. During this episode the following topics are discussed: The six steps that go into the RFA STEP 1: setup of the patient. The setup of the patient is in an operatoryroom -- the safety of a operatory room is by fargreater than the setting of an ambulatory room so STEP 2: prepare for anesthesia. STEP 3: electrode needle insertion; it is done at thepoint exactly at the point transistorically... Step 4: preparation in regard to the laryngeal nerve…. the laryngeal nerve is the most delicatepoint. The laryngeal nerve may be cooled. Step 5: extraction; simply take out the needle andat the same time it must. Use compression; avoids bleeding both internal and external Step 6: Final check. About Roberto Valcavi 20 years and 1800+ RFA procedures done; laser since 2000 and radiofrequency ablation starting in ...
University of Chicago Medicine researchers Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, PhD, assistant research professor in epidemiology, and Raymon Grogan, MD, assistant professor of surgery lead the North American Thyroid Cancer Survivorship Study (NATCSS). For their most recent research, Aschebrook-Kilfoy and Grogan recruited 1,174 thyroid cancer survivors – 89.9 percent female with an average age of 48 After treatment, thyroid cancer survivors face a lifetime of cancer surveillance and an anxiety-inducing high rate of recurrence, which could contribute to their findings. "The goal of this study is to turn it into a long-term, longitudinal cohort," said Grogan, who hopes to develop a tool that physicians can use to assess the psychological wellbeing of thyroid cancer survivors. "But, there was no way to do that with thyroid cancer because no one had ever studied quality of life or psychology of thyroid cancer before.” In this episode, we will explore: The spiritual, social, psychological, and p...
Looking for a radiofrequency ablation doctor? www.rfamd.com Radiofrequency Ablation REMOVE Thyroid Nodules NO SURGERY Dr Ralph Tufano During this podcast, the following topics are discussed: advocate for patients to be as well informed as possible and consider all treatment options for thyroid problems, including avoiding surgery whenever possible and radiofrequency ablation. five thousand dollars out of pocket and save your thyroid with radiofrequency ablation or thyroidectomy and maybe nothing out of pocket with an insurance paid thyroidectomy? if there are isn't if there are options available if there is an option available to avoid surgery and it gives you an equivalent outcome or maybe even better outcome why wouldn't you choose radiofrequency ablation? with radiofrequency ablation now it's exciting because for thyroid nodules they can be removed without doing surgery before radiofrequency ablation all you had was surgery really and obviously with surgery we talked about the po...
In this episode, Dr. Spencer, Professor of Medicine at University of Southern California, discusses the importance of testing for thyroglobulin-antibodies and thyroglobulin. Important notes from this interview include: only 10% of nodules are malignant. when getting blood panels each six months, it is very the important to of measure TgAb every time. consistency is important in blood tests, meaning, use the same laboratory and manufacturer's method every time. the most reliable method of testing TgAb is the machine manufactured by Kronus (RSR) or Roche. When getting blood tests, be sure to request either of these manufacturers for TgAb results, each of these manufacturers are 100% sensitive. Beckman is the most commonly used manufacturer, but only is 79% sensitive to TgAb results. always use the same Tg and TgAb methods and the same laboratory. Dr. Spencer's major areas of research interest are thyroid physiology and pathology, thyroglobulin and thyroid cancer, immunoassay technique...
Dr. Jeremy Freeman was born in Hamilton, Ontario and grew up in Toronto. He attended medical school at the University of Toronto, graduating with highest honours. He completed his otolaryngology residency at the University of Toronto. After receiving his Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1978, he spent two further years of advanced training, one as a Gordon Richards Fellow at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto in Radiation and Medical Oncology and a second year as a McLaughlin Fellow, training in Head and Neck Oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, UK. He was the first fellow of the Advanced Training Council sponsored by the two head and neck societies. A Full Professor, he occupies the Temmy Latner/Dynacare Chair in Head and Neck Oncology at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine. He is former Otolaryngologist-in-Chief at the Mount Sinai Hospital stepping down after fulfilling his 10 year appointment. He has an active practice focu...
Dr. Susanne Breen is a board certified naturopathic physician. She completed her medical training at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) after initial medical studies at the Oregon Health Sciences University in conventional medicine. Healing, she discovered, required more than medication or even natural remedies. Her inspiration came from her advanced studies at NUNM in gastroenterology, including Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), where she learned about the root causes of her personal health challenges. She readBreaking the Vicious Cycle, changed her diet, found direction from practitioners and started her path to health. She brings her personal experience and training to help others do the same. Dr. Breen completed a residency with Dr. Gary Weiner at Pearl Natural Health and continues to see patients at this location. Her training and expertise in the areas of IBD/IBS, thyroid health, bio-identical hormones, gynecology, IV therapy, herbal, nutritional an...
In this episode our guest is Dr. Martin Milner. Today's interview features information on optimizing medication with slow-release compounded thyroid replacement. Can adding adjusting your medication from T4 to slow release with T3 really make you feel better? The answer is, yes! And, could also be the key to losing weight. We also discuss the following topics, painful feet, dizziness, fatigue, hair loss, iron deficiency, chronic pain, fibromylagia, adrenal connection to to inflammation, sleep problems, muscle spasms, caution with your morning smoothies, and why you should stand up when taking T3. Want to find a compounding pharmacy that will make yourslow release T3 and T4? Start here: http://www.pccarx.com/ Dr. Milner has published several articles on new treatment protocols for hypothyroidism. Most recently, ” Hypothyroidism: Optimizing Medication with Slow-Release Compounded Thyroid Replacement” was published in the peer review journal of compounding pharmacists, International ...
Today's guest is Wendy Sacks, M.D., endocrinologist in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and the Thyroid Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. Some of the topics covered include radioactive iodine treatment, blood testing, the role of the pathologist, selecting the right hospital and medical team for your thyroid cancer treatment, monitoring thyroid cancer reoccurrence, and supplementation.
Looking for a radiofrequency ablation doctor? www.rfamd.com Dr. Leonardo Rangel and Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) for Malignant Thyroid Nodules. During this episode the following topics are discussed: we are treating malignant nodules with radiofrequency ablation therapy We are using radiofrequency ablation therapy since 2006 it is something that we are really experiencing is the treatment of those malignant thyroid nodules with radiofrequency ablation avoid the risk of thyroidectomy surgeons must give patients all treatment options; including no surgery there are some nodules malignant nodules, they are not amenable for radiofrequency due to position, size, or something like this patient consultations take longer because there are more treatment options to consider the problem of taking the levothyroxine About Dr. Leonardo Rangel Staff da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Membro da Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço Membro da Sociedade Americana de Otorri...