What are the treatments for thyroid cancer?

How many treatments are there for thyroid cancer? The incidence of thyroid cancer is still gradually increasing, and the specific reasons are not very clear, but this situation is enough for us to pay attention to it. After all, health is irreplaceable for us. So how many treatments are there for thyroid cancer?

Treatment of thyroid cancer:

The treatment of thyroid cancer is the most concerned issue for every patient, because this disease threatens the patient's life, so they want to recover as soon as possible. Thyroid cancer is a common cancer. Many people do not understand the symptoms of thyroid cancer, which leads to the delay of the best time for treatment. In fact, the symptoms of thyroid cancer include hoarseness, abnormal breathing, difficulty swallowing, painless hard nodules, enlarged and tender submandibular lymph nodes, facial edema, lung metastasis, bone metastasis, etc. As long as the patient carefully observes his physical condition, it is easy to find the symptoms of thyroid cancer.

1. Surgical treatment. Surgical resection is the most commonly used treatment for thyroid cancer. Different surgical methods are used for different pathological types. During surgery, the recurrent laryngeal nerve should be damaged as much as possible, and cervical lymph node dissection should be performed. Radiotherapy. When the patient's thyroid cancer has not progressed to undifferentiated stage, compression symptoms and distant metastasis will appear 2-3 months after onset. Surgery generally cannot completely remove the tumor, and surgery is likely to cause more blood metastasis. Treatment is mainly radiotherapy.

2. Radioactive particle implantation: Radioactive particle implantation can effectively control tumor development. At the same time, radiation exposure is mainly limited to the tumor, so the systemic reaction is mild and the impact on surrounding normal tissues is small. Radiofrequency and microwave, as part of the local treatment of thyroid cancer, have the characteristics of small trauma, fast recovery, definite efficacy, and few complications. They can be used for palliative treatment after tumor recurrence or radiotherapy failure.

3. Endocrine therapy: Thyroxine can inhibit TSH secretion, thereby inhibiting the proliferation of thyroid tissue and well-differentiated cancer, and has a good therapeutic effect on papillary carcinoma and follicular carcinoma. Therefore, routine administration of thyroxine at a TSH-suppressing dose after surgery for the above-mentioned types of thyroid cancer has a certain effect on preventing cancer recurrence and metastasis, but is ineffective for undifferentiated cancer. In China, 80 to 120 mg of dried thyroid tablets are generally used daily to maintain a high level of thyroid hormone.