What are the consequences of having thyroid cancer

What are the consequences of thyroid cancer? Thyroid cancer is not an easy disease to detect, and the harm of this disease is often hidden very deeply. If you don’t know much about this disease, you will easily ignore the treatment of this disease. But you should know that thyroid cancer is also cancer, so what are the consequences of suffering from thyroid cancer?

Five major dangers of thyroid cancer:

1. Thyroid tumors can be benign or malignant. Benign thyroid tumors are not serious in themselves, and generally have no obvious symptoms when the tumor is small. However, if not treated in time, the tumor will grow larger and larger. Some patients with larger tumors may experience symptoms such as difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, and hoarseness due to the compression of the trachea, esophagus, and recurrent laryngeal nerve by the tumor.

2. Malignant thyroid tumors are thyroid cancers. Most of them are low- and medium-grade malignancies. The survival rate of patients is relatively high (the average 5-year survival rate after surgery is 95%). However, a small number of patients are highly malignant (i.e., undifferentiated cancer), which is seriously life-threatening. Therefore, they should be taken seriously and treated in time.

3. Patients may have swollen cervical lymph nodes in the early stage. Some patients may also have facial flushing and diarrhea (more than 10 times a day, watery diarrhea, abdominal pain and urgency before defecation, but no pus or blood in the stool). The mass invades adjacent tissues and organs, causing hoarseness, dyspnea, and dysphagia.

4. Benign thyroid tumors have no obvious symptoms, no pain, no itching, and do not affect speaking, eating, sleeping, work and study. Over a long course of the disease, both Qi and Yin are damaged, and eventually Yin and Yang damage each other, making it a difficult-to-treat disease, and may even turn into a malignant state, ultimately endangering life.

5. Although thyroid tumors have little impact at first, as the disease progresses, both Qi and Yin are damaged, and eventually Yin and Yang are damaged, becoming a difficult-to-treat disease. Some cases turn into hyperthyroidism, a difficult-to-treat chronic disease. If left untreated for a long time, local hyperplastic tissue cells are prone to canceration over time, endangering the patient's life. According to surveys, the canceration rate of thyroid tumors is more than 10%.