Glossary
Common Short Forms Used by Thyroid Cancer Patients
- CT
- computed tomography
- DX
- diagnosis
- EBR
- external beam radiation
- Endo
- endocrinologist
- FNAB
- fine needle aspiration biopsy
- MRI
- magnetic resonance imaging
- PET
- positron emission tomography
- PT
- partial thyroidectomy
- Thyrogen
- recombinant human TSH (rhTSH)
- RAI
- radioactive iodine
- Thyca
- thyroid cancer
- Thry'vors
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- TT
- total thyroidectomy
- TX
- treatment
- US
- ultrasound
- WBS
- whole body scan (I131 scan)
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