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Thyroid Cancer

What is your thyroid?

Your thyroid produces hormones

that regulate your heart rate,

blood pressure, body temperature

and weight.

Located in the lower neck just below the adams apple.

Types of Thyroid Cancer

Papillary thyroid cancer

Follicular thyroid cancer

Thyroid lymphoma

Medullary thyroid cancer

Anaplastic thyroid cancer

Treatments

  • Surgery
  • Radioactive iodine

Side effects may include:

  • Nausea
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry eyes
  • Altered sense of taste or smell
  • Pain where thyroid cancer cells have spread, such as the neck or chest
  • Chemotherapy

Uses chemicals to kill the cancer cells within the Thyroid.

What are some symptoms?

  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Swollen areas in your neck
  • A lump on your throat that can be felt through your skin.
  • Changes to your voice
  • Pain in neck and throat

Risk Factors

When there is history of goiter.

Goiter is an enlargement of the thyroid that is noncancerous.

Exposure to high levels of radiation

Key Statistics

1,740 deaths, 980 women and 760 men

Occurs in the cells of the thyroid

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  • Removing all or most of the thyroid (thyroidectomy
  • Removing lymph nodes in the neck

U.s- 2011

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