Malignant tumor diseases caused by malignant changes in the tissue of follicular epithelial cells of the thyroid gland are what people call thyroid cancer. The incidence of this disease is more common, accounting for about 1% of all cancers.
Because thyroid cancer can be divided into medullary carcinoma, papillary carcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, and follicular carcinoma, the symptoms and treatment of each cancer are different.
Fortunately, most thyroid cancers are a relatively gentle type of cancer. It develops more slowly than most cancers, and is no more malignant than pancreatic cancer and lung cancer.
As long as most patients receive scientific and effective treatment, they can obtain a better prognostic effect, and patients can also survive for a long time. Next, I would like to introduce 4 treatments for thyroid cancer.
1. Surgery
Most people with thyroid cancer need to be treated surgically, and only by removing the tissue or velocity thyroid that has a malignant lesion can the cancer cells deteriorate and metastasize to other parts of the body.
During the procedure, the patient needs to receive general anesthesia, and if the patient's lymph nodes appear in the neck, they also need to be removed during the operation. It is also necessary to pay attention to strengthening the body's maintenance after surgery in order to make the condition better improve.
2. Radiation therapy
After thyroid cancer patients undergo surgical treatment, radiation therapy is also arranged according to the patient's situation.
Radiation therapy is a local treatment, through radiation to local irradiation, can effectively kill the remaining cancer cells in the thyroid area, help patients prevent cancer cells recurrence, to achieve the best treatment effect.
3. Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is usually used when thyroid tissue has metastasized. Chemotherapy with drugs can help patients inhibit the growth and spread of cancer cells, but after the drug enters the body, it not only acts on the thyroid part, but also affects other parts of the body.
Therefore, some patients may have symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, hair loss and other symptoms after receiving chemotherapy, and they are also prone to infection and fever.
4. Hormone replacement therapy
The thyroid gland is an important endocrine organ of the human body, which will help the human body secrete hormones and have a certain regulatory effect on metabolism and immune function. If the thyroid gland is invaded by cancer, the ability to secrete hormones decreases or even disappears altogether.
Therefore, patients need to receive hormone replacement therapy after receiving surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy, and even need to continue to receive this treatment for a lifetime to help the body replenish hormones, maintain normal metabolic functions, and improve immunity to make the disease recover better.
The main treatment methods for thyroid cancer are the above four. After being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, everyone should maintain emotional stability, further cooperate with doctors to clarify the pathological type of thyroid cancer, and then formulate a treatment plan according to their own situation.
If it is thyroid papillary cancer or follicular carcinoma or medullary carcinoma, the patient's treatment prognosis is better and the survival rate is higher. If you suffer from a clinically rare undifferentiated carcinoma, its treatment difficulty and fatality rate are higher than the other three, and patients also need to adjust their mentality, actively cooperate with treatment, strengthen the body's maintenance, and make the survival rate become higher.