Symptoms of Thyroid Cancer
Published by hina May 14th, 2007 in Daily update, Diseases & Cure.
Occasionally, symptoms such as hoarseness, neck pain, and enlarged lymph nodes do occur in people with thyroid cancer..
Although as much as 75 % of the population will have thyroid nodules, the vast majority are benign. That’s right, most of us have nodule in our thyroid glands! Young people usually don’t have thyroid nodules, but as we get older, more and more of us will develop a nodule. By the time we are 80, 90% of us will have at least one nodule. Far less than 1% of all thyroid nodules are malignant. If a lump or swelling is felt on the neck, a doctor should be consulted. A lump or other symptoms can be caused by cancers in the neck area other than thyroid cancer, or by conditions besides cancer.In rare patients, the first sign of thyroid cancer occurs after it has spread elsewhere in the body, such as the lungs or bones. Although the most common forms of thyroid cancer are slow-growing and curable with surgery, some cases can be extremely aggressive and lethal.
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