What are the symptoms of thyroid cancer?

What are the symptoms of thyroid cancer? Suffering from thyroid cancer will inevitably affect the patient's life. Although this disease is different from other cancers and the hope of treatment is very high, timely detection and treatment are also of great significance. Therefore, in order to ensure that everyone can detect and treat thyroid cancer early, the symptoms of thyroid cancer are introduced to you below.

Thyroid cancer often presents as a hard, uneven mass in the front of the neck that grows slowly. There is usually no discomfort in the early stages, but a sense of oppression may occur when the tumor is large. Medullary carcinoma may have a history of chronic diarrhea and be accompanied by facial flushing and other symptoms similar to carcinoid syndrome. In addition, it may also be accompanied by pheochromocytoma, multiple mucosal neuromas, and parathyroid adenoma.

Anyone with thyroid nodules and any of the following conditions should consider the possibility of thyroid cancer:

① In non-endemic goiter areas, young people, especially women, who have received radiation therapy to the neck and chest in childhood;

②Child patients;

③ Those with a family history of medullary thyroid cancer, accompanied by diarrhea, carcinoid or paroxysmal hypertension;

④The lump is hard, uneven, and has limited or fixed movement;

⑤ Rapid growth or compression symptoms, such as difficulty breathing or hoarseness;

⑥ The mass is large, irregular in shape, poor in mobility, cystic, and brown-yellow fluid is aspirated during puncture. X-rays show scattered, irregular, and small calcifications in the mass;

⑦Accompanied by swollen cervical lymph nodes

Through the above understanding, we know some early symptoms of thyroid disease. I hope everyone will pay attention to it in daily life. If relevant symptoms appear, you must go to the hospital for relevant examinations and treatments in time. Don't miss the best time to treat the disease.