Thyroid Cancer: What Women Need to Know
- Symptoms start slowly. Fatigue is the most common. There may be dozens of vague complaints such as aging of the hair or skin, stress.
- Even young women who are busy with work and family do not notice. When a doctor diagnoses an underactive thyroid gland due to cancer, it is diagnosed and often comes as a shock.
- Thyroid disorders are more common in women, probably more in women than in men. due to the roles of different hormones.
- "Malignant" and "cancer"are scary words, most thyroid cancer has spread to the lymph nodes Even if it is, it is often treatable.
- Thyroid cancer is generally a slowly progressing disease. There is a 98 to 99 percent survival rate at 20 years
- If a woman notices small lumps at the base of her neck, the next diagnostic test is usually a laboratory study and may consist of a blood test. Ultrasound should then be performed. Ultrasound provides a lot of information about the nodule.
- Doctors may recommend careful observation of small nodules. Larger nodules can be tested by fine needle aspiration; Here, the doctor collects a sample of cells from the nodule with a needle and looks at them under a microscope.
- About 70%' of nodule biopsies. It may indicate that the nodule is benign. 25% of biopsies are inconclusive (repeat biopsy is required), the remaining 5% indicate the presence of cancer
- Surgery to remove the thyroid and any affected lymph nodes is the preferred treatment.
- Hormones that cannot be produced in the body after the removal of the thyroid gland should be given externally as medication, and the doses of these medications should be adjusted.
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