Introduction of thyroid cancer

The human body is like a magic machine, when a certain part of the machine when problems occur, the body will appear to remind us of some small state's attention. However, the daily busy life whether you turn a blind eye to these health warning out? Xiao Bian specifically for the busy home life for you have identified a full range of knowledge, hoping to make your every day off healthy and happy.

1. What is thyroid cancer and thyroid carcinoma?

In medicine, if the origin of an organization or some kind of cancer, organ, we are usually named with this organization or organ.

Where the cancer originated in the thyroid medicine named on the thyroid cancer.

The so-called "cancer" change is our body's individual cells or cell groups happen "degenerate" or "rebellion", metamorphic cell growth and development of a sudden lost control, began to multiply without rules. With the increasing number of cancer cells multiply, they gathered together, the volume has continued to grow, so that the body form a "cancer" nodule. There are some "wild to survive and reproduce is particularly high," the cancerous cells can also be "uprooted from their homes, far-degree ocean," they first normal tolerance of the human body, "police cells, immune cells, also known as" attack, or be able to "escape" the human body multiple "immune checkpoints", the success of the human body through the normal transport system "lymphatic vessel" or "blood" to reach other parts, and in many tissues and organs within the seed, which is what we in medicine is often said that "metastatic" or "the spread of cancer." Where the cancer originated in the proliferation of thyroid cancer, we are called thyroid carcinoma.


2. Why do some people would give birth to thyroid cancer?

Like most other kinds of cancer, doctors often do not fully confirm or to explain to patients why some patients who would give birth to thyroid cancer, and some people will not bear.

Specializes in research on the pathogenesis of thyroid cancer experts believe that thyroid cancer probably occur because the following factors:

(1) because the family life over the previous generation, thyroid disease (especially thyroid cancer), genetic information passed on to future generations in the thyroid gland is likely to be a weak link. But usually most of the descendants of the body can self-repair genetic defects, not the same as the predecessors of Health thyroid cancer. However, some descendants of the growth and development of certain elements of the process from outside or inside the body to stimulate a particular aspect of the environment is a problem, will be health thyroid cancer.

(2) because of their diets (such as too much iodine in food), environmental adverse factors (such as childhood exposure to chemical drugs, or had been irradiated), or pregnancy-induced factors such as the thyroid and gradually took place within a few cells degenerate, and then gradually increased become cancer. Another long-term chronic thyroid diseases (such as thyroiditis, thyroid nodules, etc.) patients, thyroid lesions where a small number of active cells may occur gradually degenerate.

(3), even children are people in the neck than other parts of the normal thyroid gland (such as the sternum, the bone, ovary and other parts) and the first found to have thyroid cancer lesions, some of these cancers may originate in the thyroid gland (cancer cells has quietly moved to other parts of the first-onset); while some people's thyroid is actually completely normal (this phenomenon doctors can not fully explain).


3. How diagnosis of thyroid cancer?

Most patients with thyroid cancer because of the first found to have thyroid nodules, and then to the hospital through a series confirm the diagnosis.

Some patients until surgery, even after surgery has been identified as suffering from thyroid cancer. (Please refer to the thyroid nodule section).

In fact, patients (including people with thyroid nodules or other chronic thyroid diseases such as thyroiditis, goiter, etc.) do not want to start an operation, but often worried that they will not have cancer and the doctor's answer or explanation and relatively ambiguous, then is there any way to the hospital without surgical cases of thyroid cancer will be able to identify it? The following steps are several ways for the patient for reference.

(1) First, patients have to figure out their own parents or brothers and sisters are given birth to a thyroid cancer. If the relatives of Health had thyroid cancer, thyroid cancer, then your own risk likely to larger.

(2) the patient if there is a hoarse voice (but not throat disease), or there sputum have bloodshot eyes, or neck of the tumor grow rapidly, or there swallowing difficulties, then the risk of thyroid cancer is very high.

(3) regular ultrasound or X-CT examinations showed growing thyroid nodule, but also with the surrounding tissue adhesion, or the neck there are many irregular-shaped neck lymph nodes, then the possibility of thyroid cancer is very great.

(4) If the blood test in the thyroglobulin (Tg) level is high or continues to grow, then the thyroid cancer is very high.

(5) Another more reliable approach is to puncture or biopsy of thyroid nodules, or biopsy needle after the laboratory report can be sure in most cases is not thyroid cancer.

In addition, patients with relatively good economic conditions could also consider doing PET / CT examination, this examination can help determine the main thyroid nodule is a high level of glucose metabolism, thyroid nodules, if high levels of glucose metabolism, then the possibility of malignant sex are greater. PET / CT examination Another advantage is that body checking to see if thyroid cancer have not been transferred. Of course, though expensive, PET / CT examination and sometimes is not absolutely accurate.