The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Head and Neck Cancers

Added Ventkitaraman et al. as reference 12.

Added text about adjustment of the I-131 dose for weight and other age-dependent safety factors (cited Luster et al. as reference 47 and Parisi et al. as reference 48).

Added Laikui et al. as reference 73.

Thoracic Cancers

Added Hill et al. as reference 24 and level of evidence 3iiiA.

Added text about comparative genomic and fluorescent in situ hybridization methods related to gain of chromosome 8q as the main recurrent chromosomal abnormality in pleuropulmonary blastoma (cited deKrijger et al. as reference 35 and Quilichini et al. as reference 36).

Added text to include neuromyotonia as another name associated with Isaacs syndrome.

Abdominal Cancers

Added Ferrari et al. as reference 52 and level of evidence 3iiA.

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