6 Signs of Thyroid Cancer You Should Never Ignore, According to Doctors
as much attention to: thyroid cancer.
The condition is especially common in women, who are three times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than men. While the disease can be found in any gender at any age, it’s most frequently found in women in their 40s and 50s, says Dr. Zanocco.Experts don’t know why thyroid cancer strikes more women, but there are theories.
is the rarest and most aggressive form of thyroid cancer. “It develops when multiple additional genetic changes occur that turn differentiated cancer—which is a disease where most people live long enough to die from something else and is very slow growing—into one of the most highly aggressive forms of cancer that we have today, period,” says Dr. Sherman. Anaplastic thyroid cancer only occurs in about 1,000 people in the U.S. per year, he adds.
The next step for patients who have undergone surgical removal of their thyroid is to receive thyroid hormone medication to make up for what their body used to produce, says Dr. Sherman. “For differentiated cancer, the traditional triad was surgery, radioactive iodine, and thyroid hormone therapy,” he explains. “We now are being more selective in who gets radioactive iodine, and who gets and how much surgery is performed.
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