New aspects in the treatment of thyroid cancer:Highlights of the ASCO Annual Meeting 2016,Neue Aspekte in der Therapie von Schilddrüsenkarzinomen: Highlights des ASCO-Kongresses 2016

The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) took place at the beginning of June 2016 in Chicago. This year a total of 28 studies on the treatment of patients with thyroid cancer were presented, described in this review article according to the degree of cancer cell differentiation. The leading curative treatment modality is still surgery. In contrast, kinase inhibitors are being used increasingly within palliative concepts. The latest state of the art of thyroid cancer treatment, both surgical and medical, is summarized in this review.