There are up to 2000 outpatient attendances per year. The service is available at both London and Sutton. Outpatient facilities are of a comparably high standard. The waiting time for outpatient appointments will not normally exceed one week. All urgent cases will be seen at the next outpatient clinic.
Admission is guaranteed within one month.
Discharge summaries and all clinic letters are dispatched within five working days. The major advance in thyroid cancer treatment over the last decade has been the ability to calculate the absorbed radiation dose in recurrent or metastatic tumours which concentrate radioiodine. This has permitted the construction of dose response curves to determine the tumouricidal dose for differentiated thyroid carcinoma and so enable a precise prescription of further I-131 therapy. Radioiodine dose response in thyrotoxic patients using positron emission tomography. Accelerated fractionation for radiotherapy in treatment of anaplastic thyroid cancer.