Types of Thyroid Cancer and Symptoms

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The thyroid cancer has a very good cure rates for most folks thyroid cancer occurs actually

across all ages it does happen much more frequently in women and it can happen at well it can
happen at any age it does tend to peak around 40s and 50s but it can happen in children young

adults and throughout the lifespan thyroid the thyroid gland is a gland that basically makes a

hormone that's important to metabolism and it sits in the neck in the low neck right down

here what frequently will bring somebody in is either their physician found a lump in the neck

 and it's very important that that lump when you swallow will move up and down so

 oftentimes just looking in the mirror and and or seeing when a friend or loved one swallow

and seeing a lump on one side move up and down will give you an indication that there's a enlargement of the thyroid gland most of the time enlargements of the thyroid gland are

 going to be benign most of those are going to not be cancerous but it's important when you

can see and feel one that it be evaluated the types of cancer that occur very to some degree

 there's by far the most common type is called papillary thyroid carcinoma that's what the

vast majority of people that have had thyroid cancer will will have it's a very treatable form

of cancer the other types of cancers medullary carcinoma for example is one that tends to be

 more that tends to run in families it tends to be more of a genetic type of cancer well it's not

 always it certainly is much more frequently than the others follicular carcinoma is another

what we'd lump together with papillary to call well differentiated thyroid cancer and it is all

it's basically has the same risk factors or similar risk factors to papillary and then there's one

that people may have read about or known people that died of thyroid cancer very quickly

and it's called anaplastic thyroid cancer and it's very important to understand that that is a

completely separate entity it's a very very aggressive cancer and one that moves very quickly

 but the vast vast majority of cancers of the thyroid are not in a plasti we know that radiation

 exposure definitely is a risk factor for example the the folks that lived near Chernobyl when

that meltdown occurred in the mid-1980s within four years we began to see an increased

incidence of thyroid cancer in very young people people that were between newborns and in

fact those whose mothers were pregnant to about five years of age they had up to a 50 fold

increased risk 50 times risk and that began to show up very early whether that will continue to show in in adults is not completely clear yet but but without a doubt the young people were at

 highest risk so we know radiation exposure is treatment of thyroid cancer is primarily and

fundamentally surgical with the exception of anaplastic cancer the other three are treated

with an operation that involves removal of part or all of the thyroid gland depending on the

stage or the size of the lung and it may also involve removal of lymph nodes in the in the

area such as those close to the trachea and the esophagus or possibly out in the lateral neck

out in the around the jugular vein it just depends on the clinical situation we then we'll use a

thyroid hormone called synthroid or levothyroxine which is designed to replace the thyroid

but also we use it to suppressor or to decrease the activity of any potential cells that may still

be in the body and so that's another form of therapy that we use and then afterwards we

follow people we it's very important that that they be followed we see them on a on a basis

 that's regular that then involves physical examination blood tests at times and ultrasounds

again to really get a good sense of what the what I say looking under the hood so we can really

 get a good sense of what's going on inside the neck and if there's anything to be concerned

about personally I had thyroid cancer and I only had to have half of my thyroid removed

because it was so small fortunately I've not had other cancers that I treat so and I'm happy to

stay that way but with one of the nice things is when we go through the biopsy and talk about

 that I can tell them what my experience was like I do understand the anxiety of waiting for

results and and the uncertainty mine was uncertain the diagnosis was uncertain of time of

 surgery 7 years from my diagnosis and most particularly young people that are diagnosed will

have an extremely high prognosis prognostic rate so for example a young woman that is

diagnosed that doesn't have evidence of spread into the heart or I'm sorry into the lungs or

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 bones would have on average about a 98 percent chance of being alive and well at 20 years so

extremely good prognosis as the cancer is more advanced that does drop off but thyroid

cancer with the exception of anaplastic and then somewhat less with the imaginary has a very

good cure rate for most folks it's still a cancer that needs to be dealt with and and surgery as I

said is that is the treatment and follow-up is important but people can generally anticipate a long and healthy and normal.

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