How serious is the harm caused by thyroid cancer

How serious are the harms caused by thyroid cancer? Although most thyroid cancers are benign, they are also inevitably harmful to the patient's health. However, many patients do not pay much attention to thyroid cancer because they do not understand how serious these harms are. In order to allow everyone to treat this disease in time, the following is an introduction to the harms of thyroid cancer.

Most thyroid cancer patients present with painless lumps at the beginning of the disease. As the disease progresses, patients gradually feel pain. The pain symptoms of thyroid cancer vary greatly due to different pathological classifications. Papillary adenocarcinoma and follicular carcinoma grow slowly, are less malignant, and move later. Therefore, they present with painless lumps in the early and middle stages. In the late stage, pain occurs due to the infiltration of the surrounding tissues by the cancer.

Poorly differentiated cancer is highly malignant and grows rapidly. The tumor often grows larger and more diffusely in the thyroid gland. There are persistent or intermittent distending pain and dull pain. The pain is not easy to be pressed. The patient often has difficulty eating and sleeping due to the pain. What are the serious hazards of thyroid cancer?

1. When thyroid disease is so severe that it cannot be cured, it will lead to lifelong medication or even life-threatening conditions.

2. Thyroid cancer can also cause some complications, such as damage to liver and kidney function.

3. If thyroid cancer is not treated, the disease will last for a long time, damaging both Qi and Yin, and eventually Yin and Yang will damage each other, making it a difficult-to-treat disease or even life-threatening.

4. Thyroid tumors can be benign or malignant. Benign thyroid cancer itself is not serious, but if not treated in time, the tumor will grow larger and compress the trachea, esophagus and recurrent laryngeal nerve, causing symptoms such as dyspnea, dysphagia and hoarseness. In addition, benign thyroid cancer has a 20% malignant transformation rate.

Therefore, treatment should be started as soon as possible after discovery, and biological therapy is the best choice for thyroid cancer.