What are the treatments for thyroid cancer?

What are the treatments for thyroid cancer? Thyroid cancer can be divided into many types. In addition, each patient has different factors and conditions, so the treatment methods cannot be the same. If you want to have a better treatment effect, you need to make targeted choices. So what are the treatments for thyroid cancer?

Treatment of thyroid cancer:

1. Surgical treatment: Surgical resection is the most commonly used treatment for thyroid cancer. Different surgical methods are used for different pathological types. During surgery, the recurrent laryngeal nerve should be damaged as much as possible, and cervical lymph node dissection should be performed. Radiotherapy: When the patient's thyroid cancer has not progressed to undifferentiated stage, compression symptoms and distant metastasis will appear 2-3 months after onset. Surgery generally cannot completely remove the tumor, and surgery is likely to cause more blood metastasis. Treatment is mainly radiotherapy.

2. Radioactive particle implantation: Radioactive particle implantation can effectively control tumor development. At the same time, radiation exposure is mainly limited to the tumor, so the systemic reaction is mild and the impact on surrounding normal tissues is small. Radiofrequency and microwave, as part of the local treatment of thyroid cancer, have the characteristics of small trauma, fast recovery, definite efficacy, and few complications. They can be used for palliative treatment after tumor recurrence or radiotherapy failure.

3. Endocrine therapy: Thyroxine can inhibit TSH secretion, thereby inhibiting the proliferation of thyroid tissue and well-differentiated cancer, and has a good therapeutic effect on papillary carcinoma and follicular carcinoma. Therefore, routine administration of thyroxine at a TSH-suppressing dose after surgery for the above-mentioned types of thyroid cancer has a certain effect on preventing cancer recurrence and metastasis, but is ineffective for undifferentiated cancer. In China, 80 to 120 mg of dried thyroid tablets are generally used daily to maintain a high level of thyroid hormone.