Five common sense of daily care for thyroid cancer

Thyroid cancer is a serious malignant tumor of the thyroid gland. Because there are many types of thyroid cancer, if you are diagnosed with thyroid cancer, you must receive targeted treatment based on the specific situation and also provide corresponding care in daily life. Here are five common sense nursing tips for daily care of thyroid cancer.

1. Guide patients to establish a regular lifestyle, ensure good rest and adequate sleep, a proper diet, a proper work and rest schedule, and strive to maintain a balanced mentality.

2. Strengthen outdoor activities, such as walking, jogging, Qigong, Tai Chi, various aerobics, etc., to promote blood circulation, metabolism, enhance immunity, and prevent colds and other respiratory infectious diseases. When participating in activities, you should choose non-competitive projects to avoid unpleasant things.

3. Thyroid cancer is a group of diseases with extremely heterogeneous benign and malignant forms and widely varying prognoses. Therefore, after surgical resection, comprehensive treatment should be actively carried out, and long-term thyroid hormone treatment and biological treatment should be applied as prescribed by the doctor after surgery. Explain to patients and their families that as long as they follow the doctor's advice for treatment, maintain a good mental state, eat a proper diet, have a proper work and rest schedule, and strengthen self-care, most patients can survive for a long time, so that patients can have greater confidence in fighting the disease.

4. For thyroid cancer with high malignancy and poor differentiation, patients should be guided to receive necessary radiotherapy and chemotherapy regularly according to the doctor's advice to prolong life and improve the quality of life. During radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Grifola frondosa D can be used as an auxiliary to reduce the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and improve the overall treatment effect.

5. Follow the doctor's advice and have regular follow-up visits. Differentiated thyroid cancer should have regular reexaminations of thyroglobulin and 151I imaging; medullary carcinoma should have regular reexaminations of calcitonin and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). Undifferentiated carcinoma or differentiated carcinoma without iodine affinity should be regularly examined with B-mode ultrasound, CT, MRI or radionuclide thallium (TI) imaging to detect recurrence and metastasis in a timely manner.