Symptoms of thyroid cancer

Nowadays, cancer has become a common disease, and thyroid cancer has also become one of the most common cancers. So what are the specific symptoms of thyroid cancer? Next, we will explain it in detail in the following content.

Every disease, as long as it occurs in our body, will cause a series of symptoms, and we often feel uncomfortable, especially thyroid cancer. The patient's symptoms are very obvious, and severe cases can cause a series of diseases, which should attract our attention.

1. Local compression symptoms

If the thyroid cancer continues to swell, it can compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve, causing hoarseness, dysphagia and weight loss if it invades the esophagus, and dyspnea, hemoptysis and chest discomfort if it invades or compresses the trachea. Therefore, local compression symptoms are one of the symptoms of thyroid cancer.

2. Symptoms of local metastasis

Local metastasis is also an important symptom of thyroid cancer. It is stated that local metastasis of thyroid cancer in the late stage often causes hard and fixed lymph nodes in the neck. The probability of cervical lymph node metastasis and enlargement in clinical papillary cancer and medullary cancer is relatively high, which requires attention.

3. Associated symptoms

Symptoms of thyroid cancer also include some accompanying symptoms. It is indicated that patients with medullary carcinoma may have pheochromocytoma and parathyroid hyperplasia or tumors at the same time, and clinical symptoms such as diarrhea, palpitations, facial flushing and hypocalcemia may occur.

4. Symptoms of distant metastasis

The rate of thyroid cancer metastasis can reach 50% to 90.5%, and the rate of cervical lymph node metastasis is 64.56%. Distant metastasis of thyroid cancer is more common in the lungs, skull, vertebrae and pelvis. Therefore, symptoms of distant metastasis are also one of the symptoms of thyroid cancer.

Any disease, even cancer, has its common or unique symptoms. Therefore, when we find certain bad changes in our body, we must deal with it and seek medical treatment as soon as possible to avoid missing the best time for treatment.