Thyroid Cancer Treatments

Over the last 40 years thyroid cancer rates have increased. The rate of the most common form of thyroid cancer, papillary thyroid cancer, was 4.8 per 100,000 people in the US and 14.9 per 100,000 in 2012. These cases are more often found today when imaging of the neck or chest is done for other reasons and a mass is found in the thyroid.

A 2017 study followed 291 patients with papillary thyroid cancers of less than 1.5 centimeters. They received ultrasounds every 6 months for two years rather then surgery and ultrasound yearly thereafter. The patients …read more