Research

The Thyroid Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai conducts research on thyroid cancer, thyroid nodules, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and other conditions affecting the thyroid.

Thyroid Cancer

  • Use of various agents to induce the expression of the sodium iodide symporter into tumors that have lost the ability to concentrate radioactive iodine (Drs. Koeffler and Braunstein )
  • Determination of optimal scanning time following radioactive iodine treatment (Drs. Waxman and Braunstein)
  • Does a Thyrogen-stimulated diagnostic scan impair uptake of a therapeutic dose of radioactive iodine? (Drs. Waxman and Braunstein)
  • Duration of excess total body iodine following a CT scan with contrast (Drs. Park and Braunstein)
  • Thyroid cancer cluster in Beverly Hills (Drs. Sacks and Braunstein)
  • Factors affecting virulence of papillary microcarcinomas (Drs. Sacks and Braunstein)

Thyroid Nodules

  • Long-term follow-up of thyroid incidentalomas (Dr. Braunstein)
  • Thyroid hormone replacement therapy with current preparations of l-thyroxine (Dr. Braunstein)

Hashimoto's Thyroiditis