The thyroid is one underrated organ. Most people do not know much about this small part of our body as much as we do about the lungs, heart or liver. The thyroid is a gland located at the front of your neck just below the larynx. It may be small but it has a very important role in the body. The thyroid is responsible for producing hormones that controls all aspec[...]

Anaplastic thyroid cancer is the rarest of all the thyroid cancers. It constitutes 0.5 to 1.5 percent of all the thyroid cancer cases. However, it is the most aggressive and the deadliest. It is the type of cancer that occurs within a goiter (a swollen th[...]

Follicular thyroid cancer is the second most common of all thyroid cancers. It comprises about 15% of all thy thyroid cancer cases. Considered more aggressive than the more common papillary thyroid cancer, it affects an older age bracket and is less commo[...]

Medullary thyroid cancer is the third most common of all thyroid cancers. It accounts for 5 to 8 percent of the entire thyroid cancer cases. It is completely different from all the other thyroid cancers in many ways.

Unlike papillary and follicular [...]

Before trying to understand metastatic thyroid carcinoma, you have to know the concept called "metastasis" first. Metastasis is the movement or spread of a disease or an infection from one organ to another non-contiguous organ. The term is often[...]

Papillary thyroid cancer is the most common but the most treatable of all thyroid cancers. In fact, it comprises about 70% of all diagnosed thyroid cancer cases. In the United States alone, at least 10,000 new cases of papillary thyroid cancer are diagnos[...]

First, you have to know how cancers, in general, develop. Cells, the basic unit of our body, have a life cycle. They grow and divide to form new cells. Old cells die. This process occurs according to our DNA, what contains the instructions that controls a[...]

Surgery is the most common treatment option for thyroid cancer. It can be a lobectomy, wherein a part of the thyroid is removed from your body, or a thyroidectomy, wherein the doctor gets rid of the entire organ. Radioactive iodine treatment, chemotherapy[...]

As we grow older, we develop nodules in our thyroid glands. A study shows that as much as 75 percent of the population will develop thyroid nodules but almost all of them (99%) is noncancerous. About 90% of us will have these nodules by the time we hit 80[...]

The good news is that thyroid cancer is treatable. There are many ways of treating it depending on the stage and type of the disease, the patient's demographic, and the patient's choice. However, after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, do not proceed t[...]