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Thyroıd Cancer Awareness


Thyroıd Cancer Awareness

Release Date: 02 09 2019

Writer: SURGEON M.D. Kayıhan Çağlar


September Is Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month
Thyroid cancers, differentiated thyroid cancers, medullary thyroid cancer and anaplastic thyroid cancer are divided into three main groups. It is the most common group of differentiated thyroid cancers and accounts for about 95% of all thyroid cancers. (including papillary, follicular and Hürthle cell)  Treatment: surgical treatment or of radioactive iodine ablation therapy and lifelong thyroid hormone drug therapy  for people who is in the low risk group.
What is Thyroid Gland?
The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland that sits low on the front of the neck. Your thyroid lies below your Adam’s apple, along the front of the windpipe. The thyroid has two side lobes, connected by a bridge (isthmus) in the middle. When the thyroid is its normal size, you can’t feel it.

Brownish-red in color, the thyroid is rich with blood vessels. Nerves important for voice quality also pass through the thyroid.The thyroid secretes several hormones, collectively called thyroid hormones. The main hormone is thyroxine, also called T3, T4. Thyroid hormones act throughout the body, influencing metabolism, growth and development, and body temperature. During infancy and childhood, adequate thyroid hormone is crucial for brain development.
What are the Symptoms of Thyroid Cancer?

    • A lump in the front of the neck, near the Adam's apple
    • Hoarseness
    • Swollen glands in the neck
    • Difficulty swallowing
    • Difficulty breathing
    • Pain in the throat or neck
    • A cough that persists and is not caused by a cold

What causes thyroid cancer?

Thyroid cancer is the most common cancer among the glands with a rate of 92%.However, it accounts for less than 1 percent of all cancer cases in the body. At the same time, the most positive type of cancer that responds to treatment is thyroid cancer.Inherited genetic syndromes; Some conditions, including cancer, come from the DNA you get from your parents.Iodine deficiency; If you don’t get much of this chemical element in your diet, you could be at more risk for certain types of thyroid cancer. Radiation exposure; If your head or neck was exposed to radiation treatment as a child.Thyroid cancer is usually very treatable, even if you have a more advanced stage of it. That’s because there are effective treatments that give you a great chance for a full recovery. And surgery, when it’s needed, can sometimes cure it.
What Are Thyroid Cancer Treatment Methods?
Surgery is the most effective method of treatment of thyroid cancer.The most reliable is the completely removing of the thyroid gland. If cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes in the neck, these will be removed at the same time surgery is done on the thyroid. This is especially important for treatment of medullary thyroid cancer and for anaplastic cancer (when surgery is an option).
For papillary or follicular cancer where only 1 or 2 enlarged lymph nodes are thought to contain cancer, the enlarged nodes may be removed and any small deposits of cancer cells that may be left are then treated with radioactive iodine. More often, several lymph nodes near the thyroid are removed in an operation called a central compartment neck dissection. 
Removal of even more lymph nodes, including those on the side of the neck, is called a modified radical neck dissection.Treatment may remove or destroy the cancer, but it is very common to have questions about cancer coming back or treatment no longer working.Therefore, patients should be under control regularly.This type of surgery should be performed by surgeons experienced in thyroid cancer.Complications such as hoarseness and low calcium may be minimized when performed by an experienced team.





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