Is medullary thyroid cancer easy to treat? How to treat medullary thyroid cancer

There are many cancer patients. Many people develop cancer because they do not pay attention to their daily lives, and even delay treatment, which makes the condition more serious. Today, let us learn about whether medullary thyroid cancer is easy to treat.

Medullary thyroid carcinoma is not actually thyroid cancer. It originates from the thyroid parafollicular cells (also known as C cells) that secrete calcitonin. They are neuroendocrine cells and have nothing to do with thyroid follicular cells. It is easy to treat if treated in the early stages.

The doctor will choose one or more combined treatments based on the size of your thyroid nodules, your age at diagnosis, and whether there is cervical lymph node metastasis and distant metastasis:

1. Currently, surgery is the preferred treatment for MTC;

2. Other treatments include radiotherapy, chemotherapy and drug intervention;

3. Currently, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are considered to be palliative treatments only when control measures are ineffective;

4. New molecular targeted therapeutics for adult patients with advanced (metastatic) MTC;

5. Radioimmunotherapy and vaccination treatment have developed recently.

Patients who have undergone surgery need to pay attention to the following aspects:

1. Diet: Diet care after surgery is particularly important, and the following should be achieved: balanced nutrition, from eating small meals frequently to regular and quantitative meals; eating more fresh vegetables, fruits, kelp, seaweed, etc.; if nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite and other discomforts occur during postoperative radiotherapy, Chinese medicine treatment can be carried out under the guidance of a physician.

2. Exercise: Keep moving in bed after surgery, and keep doing full body exercises after getting out of bed. After the incision heals, do shoulder and neck function exercises until 3 months after discharge;

3. Rehabilitation: Avoid excessive neck movement and excessive talking within 2 days after surgery to prevent bleeding from the incision. Cough and expectorate effectively under the guidance of doctors and nurses, provide necessary psychological care, and maintain a good mood.