2006-06-21 14:25:03 · 6 answers · asked by codysnina 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Treatment varies depending on the type of tumor.
Surgery is usually the treatment of choice, with usually the entire thyroid gland removed. If the physician suspects that the cancer has spread to lymph nodes in the neck, these will also be removed during surgery.
Radiation therapy with radioactive iodine is often used with or without surgery. Radiation therapy with beam radiation can also be used.
After treatment, patients need to take thyroid hormone to replace what their glands used to make. The dose is usually a little higher than what the body needs, which helps keep the cancer from coming back.
If the cancer does not respond to surgery or radiation and has spread to other parts of the body, chemotherapy may be used, but this is only effective for about a third of patients.
2006-06-21 15:48:02 · answer #1 · answered by purple 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-23 01:27:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surgical resection if possible. Chemotherapy if necessary. Check local lymph nodes for evidence of metastasis. Luckily, thyroid cancer is very slow growing (except for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma). You'll live a long time with it.... papillary carcinoma has a 10 year survival of over 95%.
2006-06-21 14:27:55 · answer #3 · answered by Almost MD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
would be interested in what area of the world you are from...apparently...and you can check the internet on this...thyroid cancer is seen in areas where there has been atomic/nuclear testing..radiation of some sort...therefore the only people to get it...is living in that particular area....like....st. george, utah..nevada...eastern tenn....etc...also probably seen more in people who are in their late forties/ fifties and older...as alot of testing was done after WWII. I had it and the radioactive isotoples didn't work...so i had surgery..and now take pills....however...if i knew then..what i know now...i would do things alittle differently....but then..that is another story
2006-06-21 15:19:44 · answer #4 · answered by leiandrai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very seriously and I would ask an oncologyst that question.
2006-06-21 14:27:06 · answer #5 · answered by thomas p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my friend has it.. they removed his thyroid and now he takes medication....
2006-06-21 14:28:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋