| Even though thyroid cancer is a disease that cannot | | | | Futhermore, in the cases of severe thyroid cancer, |
| be prevented, it is a curable affection and can be | | | | patients may need another treatment after they |
| treated by using an appropriate treatment. In | | | | passed through a surgery. One of the most common |
| addition, treatments of thyroid cancer usually include | | | | procedure is the supplemental thyroid hormone, |
| surgeries, radioactive iodine and radiation therapy and | | | | hormones which replace the ones produced by the |
| depend on the stage and the type of cancers. | | | | thyroid. Patients who already suffered a surgery tend |
| To begin with, a common method used in patients | | | | to become hypothyroid and in this way they need |
| with papillary, follicular or medullary is radiation | | | | extra thyroid hormones in order to keep the |
| therapy, a procedure which is used if the patient has | | | | remaining thyroid gland inactive through a feedback |
| a risk of recurrence following surgery alone, such as | | | | system. |
| the type of cancer known as Tall Cell Variant. | | | | Much more, another procedure used in the thyroid |
| Moreover this procedure is used when the tyroid | | | | cancer treatments is the use of radiation iodine (RAI). |
| cancer is adherent to the trachea, has mediastinal | | | | This procedure is usually used for patients who |
| lymp node involvment or doesn't take up RAI. It is | | | | suffer from tumors with high risk features such as |
| important to note that radiation therapy has brought | | | | sizes of 1.5cm, tumors which have spread to other |
| significant results especially for the severe types of | | | | tissues and lymph nodes and also thyroid cancer that |
| thyroid cancer and also for the patients who still | | | | has come back. What is more, a usual treatment |
| present residual cancer after the surgery. | | | | used in many types of cancers and sometimes in |
| Secondly, even though radiation therapy is considered | | | | tyroid cancer is chemotherapy. In addition certain |
| a efficient method, surgery is still the most common | | | | chemotherapy drugs such as adriamycin, etoposide or |
| procedure in the treatments for tyroid cancers. | | | | cisplatin are usually used in patients who suffer from |
| Unlike the partial surgeries, such as the removal of a | | | | anaplastic thyroid cancer or affections which occured |
| single lobe of the thyroid gland (lobectomy), an | | | | due to the prolonged exposure to RAI or radiation |
| extensive surgery which includes the whole removal | | | | therapy. |
| of the thyroid gland thyroidectomy (only small | | | | All in all, treatments for thyroid cancer vary from a |
| remnant of throid tissue with parathyroid glands | | | | person to other and even though this type of cancer |
| remain attached to the thyroid). It is important to | | | | is curable, specialiasts still try to find new procedure |
| mention that in many cases when the thyroid gland is | | | | for certain patients that don't respond to |
| not completely removed, the tumor may appear | | | | conventional therapy or patients with poor prognosis |
| again. | | | | analastic disease. |