What are the symptoms of thyroid cancer

What are the symptoms of thyroid cancer? Thyroid cancer is a malignant tumor in our thyroid gland. The main site of onset is the neck. Generally speaking, the symptoms of this cancer are relatively obvious. Compared with other cancers, it is easier to detect and treat in time. So what are the symptoms of thyroid cancer?

What are the symptoms of thyroid cancer?

1. In the early stage, patients have symptoms of neck swelling and local tumors, and the surface of the tumor is uneven, fixed and hard. As the disease progresses, the tumor will grow larger and compress the trachea, causing difficulty breathing, hoarseness, a sense of obstruction when swallowing, or swelling of nearby lymph glands.

2. Papillary carcinoma grows the slowest. Clinically, except for the palpation of thyroid nodules and local lymphadenopathy, other symptoms are rare. When the tumor is small and located deep in the thyroid gland, it is generally difficult to detect. Follicular cell carcinoma manifests as nodular thyroid swelling, which is often seen as a single nodule. It is hard as a stone and can involve the entire lobe of the thyroid gland. In the later stage, erosion of adjacent tissues, pain, and distant metastasis occur. Follicular cell carcinoma and its metastatic lesions have the function of iodine uptake and can occasionally cause hyperthyroidism.

3. Undifferentiated cancer manifests as enlarged and painful thyroid tumors. It erodes adjacent tissues and may cause hoarseness, respiratory distress and dysphagia. The tumors are often tender, hard as stone, adherent and fixed to surrounding tissues, with enlarged local lymph nodes and distant metastasis.

The diagnosis of thyroid cancer mainly adopts medical history and local physical examination, radionuclide examination, X-ray examination, ultrasound examination and fine needle aspiration cytology examination.