How Dangerous is Thyroid Cancer | UCLA Endocrine Center

Most people have a type of thyroid cancer that’s slow growing, treatable and curable, says endocrine surgeon Avital Harari, MD. Prognosis depends on the type of thyroid cancer, how far it has spread and your age. Younger age is better — with most thyroid cancers, you can’t present with an advanced stage if you’re under 55 years old.

To determine how dangerous the thyroid cancer is, you need to know whether it has spread to other parts of the body, such as the lymph nodes. A neck ultrasound can identify any spreading, and treatment is often successful even when cancers have spread to the lymph nodes.

For the best thyroid cancer outcomes, your health care team should treat the thyroid and any lymph nodes involved. This usually includes having surgery to remove half or all the thyroid gland.

A small number of thyroid cancers are more aggressive than others — they may spread faster and have worse outcomes. There are treatments available at UCLA Health for later staged, more aggressive types.

No matter the type or stage of thyroid cancer, treatment is crucial. Follow-up after treatment for all patients with thyroid cancer is important since it can come back. If you have questions about your unique cancer, talk to your surgeon and endocrinologist.

[anthonygibson]

Im 41 i had a biopsy done but they say no cancer thank God in Jesus name but my doc said it can turn into it tho. I need to check back on it i pray no cancer but i may just have the lump remove. 🙏🏾❤️💙 I have 7 children i need to be here for them keep me in prayers my name Nara im on someone phone so name gone be different when i send this🥰

[quincylloyd]

she did a great job at explaining.. some videos you watch... you're like huh?

[chuchu]

Hello. My brother lives in Liverpool and he had surgery yesterday major thyroid surgery through his chest and doctor told us that thyroid gland is almost 1kg in weight and now he is in anistisia for 3days. Now tell me is there any issue if they put him in anistesia on ventilator for long time. Min time duration that told us 3 days and max no time please guide me we are worried about him

[MelissaMarsh-qugp]

My aunt had thyroid cancer and then developed brain cancer. She wasn’t offered radiation therapy after her thyroid cancer because of Covid. Could this lack of care be the cause of her brain cancer?

[emilyanselm]

My daughter is 43 and has to have her thyroid cancer she has 7 children and my only child i am so scared it turned our world upside down she has been after her doctors for a long time but they kept giving her oh no its not your thyroid we dont need to do this or that 😢

[digitalwolf]

Thyroid Cancer is weird in the sense that if you were over 55 with say Stage 4 and then suddenly somehow you were under 55 instead it would be capped at Stage 2. The treatments for aggressive variants have come quite a ways in the last few years. Where even anaplastic has options other than... well what it used to have.

[nanapam]

Why don’t doctors want to do RFA instead of going straight to surgery?

[beachbumLifestyle]

What’s the most dangerous kind of thyroid cancer

[iedit]

if we remove all of the thyroid out, what are the odds of the thyroid cancer recurring?

[joyceb]

CAN THYROID CANCER BE FIND FROM A BLOOD TEST FROM THE ARM?

[joyceb]

CAN THYROID CANCER BE TREATED WITH MEDS?

[susanmonty]

I had .88 mm well differentiated papillary with follicular variant stage TMN01 - I had thyroid removed.

[amaliabarnizo]

I have a thyroid cancer I don't know what am gonna do😢

[HeatherBDentureDiVa]

I'm 37 with many many autoimmune diseases some rare and was just told I have thyroid cancer

[teresapack]

The dumbest thing I have ever heard "You have thyroid cancer and its small but we can just let it grow for a while before we take it out". I was told this and I looked at my endocrinologist like she was stupid.

[beyzayildiz]

You didn't talked about RAI resistant patients and about how our lives radically change after the surgery

[ogbeborchristabel]

Antibiotic thyroid medicine from Dr emuakhe on YouTube from Africa vanished my thyroid case and haven't seen any reoccurrence to date, you're truly an epitome of good treatment..

[aaaaaaaaaa]

Please don’t do thyroid treatments at hospital. Thyroid cancer se nahi marte h, ye bahot lucky type ki cancer h. Matlab aap apna diet thik karke cancer ko had se khatam kar sakte h.
Maine nagpur k sabse famous aur experienced doctor se treatment karaya aur wo sirf paiso k liye mujhe bali chadaya. Dawaiya jo ki radioactive iodine jaisi h waisi dawayi ya over dose diya.
Chuttiya aur hramiyat ki kami kahi nahi h.
Apne aap ko kam Zoe na samjhe. Apna ilaj khud kare. Tin char Aur doctors se salah le. Puri jankari le

[Lashkar-e-taibaa]

She’s an immigrant she got a slight accent