What are the symptoms of thyroid cancer

What are the symptoms of thyroid cancer? Many patients with thyroid cancer have aggravated their condition because they missed the best time for treatment, which also made treatment more difficult. In fact, this is because we know too little about thyroid cancer. So what are the symptoms of thyroid cancer?

Thyroid Cancer Symptoms

For many people, only knowing the name of thyroid cancer but not knowing its symptoms is not enough. We need to understand its symptoms so that we can detect and treat it in advance. This will not make the condition worse, right? Let's take a look at the symptoms below.

1. The symptoms of thyroid cancer are mainly manifested as a lump in front of the trachea, in the middle of the neck or slightly to one side. The lump is hard in texture, cannot move up and down with swallowing, is fixed and cannot be moved, and gradually increases in size. Lymph nodes can be seen in the neck, compressing the trachea, causing difficulty breathing and hoarseness. It often invades blood vessels early and metastasizes through the blood, with skull and lung metastasis being more common. There are usually no obvious subjective symptoms in the early stage of the disease, but a hard and uneven nodule appears in the thyroid tissue. In the late stage, it often compresses the adjacent nerves, trachea, and esophagus to produce corresponding symptoms. Local metastasis is often in the neck, with hard and fixed lymph nodes. Distant metastasis is often seen in dry flat bones and lungs.

2. Thyroid cancer usually has no obvious symptoms in the early stage of the disease, except for a hard and uneven mass in the thyroid tissue, which gradually increases in size and moves less up and down when swallowing. If these two symptoms grow rapidly in a short period of time, it is mostly undifferentiated cancer. In the late stage, it often compresses the laryngeal nerve, causing hoarseness, difficulty breathing and swallowing in the trachea and esophagus. If the cervical sympathetic nerve is compressed, it can cause Horner syndrome. When the superficial branch of the cervical nerve is invaded, the patient may have pain in the ear, pillow, shoulder and other parts. Local metastasis is often in the neck, with hard and fixed lymph nodes. Distant metastasis is often seen in flat bones and lungs.