Thyroid Cancer

Thyroid cancer is a disease that you get when abnormal cells begin to grow in your thyroid gland . The thyroid gland is shaped like a butterfly and is located in the front of your neck.

Ages affected by Thyroid Cancer

Genders Affected

Thyroid cancer Mortality Rate with 5 years

Symptoms

• Requires a medical diagnosis. Some people have no symptoms. Others may notice a lump in the neck. People may experience Pain: in the neck Neck: enlarged lymph nodes, lump, or swelling Also common: thyroid nodules

Treatments

• Treatment depends on stage Treatments include surgery, hormone therapy, radioactive iodine, radiation, and in some cases chemotherapy.
• Medical procedure Radiation therapy: Treatment that uses x-rays and other high-energy rays to kill abnormal cells.
• Hormone therapy: Affects body processes by regulating the activity of the organs. Levothyroxine (Synthroid, Tirosint, Unithroid, Levothroid, Levoxyl, and Novothyrox)
• Surgery Thyroidectomy: Surgical removal of all or part of the thyroid gland. Endocrine surgery: Surgical treatment of the glands that produce hormones in the body. For example, to remove a tumor on the gland.

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• Medications Antithyroid agent: Prevents the thyroid gland from making or releasing thyroid hormone. Radioactive iodine (Hicon)
• Surgery Thyroidectomy: Surgical removal of all or part of the thyroid gland. Endocrine surgery: Surgical treatment of the glands that produce hormones in the body. For example, to remove a tumor on the gland. Partial thyroidectomy: Surgical removal of part of the thyroid. Lymphadenectomy: Surgical removal of a lymph node. Neck dissection: Surgical removal of lymph nodes in the neck..
• Hormone therapy: Affects body processes by regulating the activity of the organs. Levothyroxine (Synthroid, Tirosint, Unithroid, Levothroid, Levoxyl, and Novothyrox)

Risk Factors

• Gender and age
• Hereditary conditions
• LIFESTYLE Low-iodine die
• PREVIOUS TREATMENTS Radiation exposure
• although the causes of thyroid cancer are still being investigated, certain factors . factors : hereditary conditions, gender and age.

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• are still being investigated, certain factors . factors : hereditary conditions, gender and age

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