What are the obvious early symptoms of female thyroid cancer

What are the early symptoms of thyroid cancer in women? Although thyroid disease has no gender distinction, due to physiological characteristics, there are more female patients than male patients. The early symptoms of thyroid cancer are not particularly obvious. It is difficult to detect without certain common sense. So what are the early symptoms of thyroid cancer in women?

What are the early symptoms of thyroid cancer?

1. In the early stage, patients have symptoms of neck swelling and local tumors, and the surface of the tumor is uneven, fixed and hard. As the disease progresses, the tumor will grow larger and compress the trachea, causing difficulty breathing, hoarseness, a sense of obstruction when swallowing, or swelling of nearby lymph glands.

2. Papillary carcinoma grows the slowest. Clinically, except for the palpation of thyroid nodules and local lymphadenopathy, other symptoms are rare. When the tumor is small and located deep in the thyroid gland, it is generally difficult to detect. Follicular cell carcinoma manifests as nodular thyroid swelling, which is often seen as a single nodule. It is hard as a stone and can involve the entire lobe of the thyroid gland. In the later stage, erosion of adjacent tissues, pain, and distant metastasis occur. Follicular cell carcinoma and its metastatic lesions have the function of iodine uptake and can occasionally cause hyperthyroidism.

3. Undifferentiated cancer manifests as enlarged and painful thyroid tumors. It erodes adjacent tissues and may cause hoarseness, respiratory distress and dysphagia. The tumors are often tender, hard as stone, adherent and fixed to surrounding tissues, with enlarged local lymph nodes and distant metastasis.

Through the above understanding, we know some early symptoms of thyroid cancer. I hope everyone can pay attention to it. If the above symptoms appear in your life, you must go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. Only by starting treatment as early as possible will the possibility of cure be greater.