How To Treat Thyroid Cancer - Lupm in Neck

Thyroid cancer is very rare result of excessive enlargement of the thyroid gland that is often not realized because they do not interfere. Thyroid gland Cancer causes the growth of nodules or lumps in neck and does not cause pain.

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"A lump that grows as nodules in the thyroid gland and cause lump in neck are generally benign and harmless". How to tell the thyroid lump, is by palpating the neck area, which is Adam's apple in men. Need to be vigilant if there are lumps in the neck which is characterized by pain at the time of pressing neck. Known, the lump in thyroid gland will come to move on when we swallow to swallow saliva. In addition, with a hoarse voice due to nodules that grow slightly pressed into the throat.

"About 10% -20% of patients who seek treatment at an endocrine clinic patients with thyroid disorders and as much as 5% to 10% of cases it is malignant and the cause is not clearly known." 

men over the age of 50-60 years, the number of ferocity would be high due to the stimulation of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) was different. You should be aware of the occurrence of malignancy in thyroid nodules when its dense, hard, and it is not fluid (cystic), there were only one, and a sudden onset of rapid growth. However, thyroid cancer is not to be feared because of slow progress and the recovery rate is high. To reduce the recurrence rate and prolong the life expectancy of thyroid cancer patients, the integrated management needs to be done in various ways.

 First, to determine the malignancy of the thyroid gland, needs to be done laboratory tests to determine thyroid gland function and the sign of the tumor, which is check TSH, T3, and T4, and calcitonin tiroglobin. Can also be made ​​plain neck. Second, to ensure lump in neck, a fine needle biopsy should be done, that took a bit of fluid contained in the lump by using very fine needles that do not cause excessive pain, which would differentiate these lumps. 

Once clear of cancer types contained in this lump, surgery will be performed (thyroiddectomy) to remove the entire tumor tissue and their thyroid glands. The next stage of the ablation performed if still found the remains, namely by giving small doses of radioactive iodine liquid that dripped into the mouth.



"Once the cells are removed and disposed of thyroid ablation was then performed, the patient does not have automated the thyroid gland so that the patient was again referred to as hypothyroidism."

This needs to be done during thyroid hormone substitution therapy with appropriate doses. "After that, monitoring or detection needs to be done again to see whether there is a recurrence of the thyroid through fingerprints. The trick with the nuclear radio examination or blood tests to look for signs of the emergence of cancer cells ".