The problem of a thyroid cancer diagnosis and its treatment is one of the popular problems in the oncology. It is connected with a wide common of different thyroid cancer types among population. The thyroid cancer diagnosis is a very hard task.
The diseases of the thyroid are connected with changes of its functions and its structure. When the thyroid function is high, the metabolism processes become quicker. It leads to losing weight, irritation, weakness. When the thyroid function is low, weakness, high blood pressures appear. The skin becomes too dry. The thyroid can change her size and tumors can appear. Pains in the thyroid are rather rare. Unfortunately, eighty per cent of sick people don't feel anything in the thyroid. Often people think that they are healthy, but they are ill for some time.
On the early stage thyroid cancer diagnosis is made on the base of growing tumor. High attention to the thyroid cancer symptoms is the best way of the early thyroid cancer diagnosis in the most cases of the cancer. The thyroid cancer symptoms are:
1) A swelling on the neck, sometimes it grows quickly;
2) Voice hoarseness;
3) The pain in the neck which can spread to an ear;
4) Hard breathing;
5) cough which is not connected with any other disease;
If one of these thyroid cancer symptoms appears it is necessary to visit a doctor. Other tumors in the neck can be a reason of appearing of some symptoms. And the only way to find out if these symptoms are connected with the thyroid cancer is a medical examination. The doctor has to ask about risk factors, symptoms and other health problems. If anybody had in the family the thyroid cancer, it is necessary to go to the doctor. The doctor pays attention to the thyroid size and chooses the medical check-up.
The radioisotope scanning with radioactive iodine takes the big place in the thyroid cancer diagnosis. But this method not always allows defining if the tumor is malignant.
The biopsy is the most exact method (together with an operation) in the thyroid cancer diagnosis. It allows finding out everything about the tumor in the thyroid. This method allows making right diagnose to fifty five-ninety per cent of sick people.
Sometimes rontgenologic methods are used. The doctors advise everybody to go to the doctor and examine the thyroid once a year.
Nowadays ultrasound study is very popular in the thyroid cancer diagnosis.
The operation is radical in the thyroid treatment. When the tumor is cut out, after it a therapy with hormones is used. This therapy lasts for eight weeks.
The thyroid cancer prognosis is much better according to the cancer of other organs.
So, the best thyroid cancer diagnosis is complex. Only complex diagnosis can define exactly if the tumor is malignant or not.
Thus, it is hard to notice the thyroid cancer on the early stage. The thyroid cancer diagnosis is a difficult task nowadays. The earlier the thyroid cancer is noticed by the doctor, the quicker recovery will come. So, it is recommended to examine the thyroid once a year. Especially it is important for children and old people over the age of sixty.