Experts explain thyroid cancer treatment

Thyroid cancer is not the most common disease, but it is a high-incidence disease among cancers. Therefore, if you want to avoid being troubled by thyroid cancer, you should learn more about this disease in your life. If you have thyroid cancer, you also need timely treatment. So what are the treatment methods? The following experts explain the methods of treating thyroid cancer.

What are the treatments for 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 the operation, recurrent laryngeal nerve damage should be avoided as much as possible, and cervical lymph node dissection should be performed.

2. Radiotherapy

When the patient's thyroid cancer progresses to undifferentiated stage, compression symptoms and distant metastasis will appear 2-3 months after onset. Surgery usually cannot completely remove the tumor and is likely to cause more blood metastasis. Treatment is mainly radiotherapy.

3. Radioactive seed implantation

Radioactive particle implantation therapy can effectively control tumor development and can also confine radiation exposure mainly to the inside of the tumor, so systemic reactions are mild and have little impact on surrounding normal tissues.

4. Radio frequency and microwave

As part of the local treatment of thyroid cancer, it has the characteristics of less trauma, quick recovery, definite efficacy and few complications. It can be used for palliative treatment after tumor recurrence or failure of radiotherapy.

5. Endocrine therapy

Thyroxine can inhibit TSH secretion, thus inhibiting the proliferation of thyroid tissue and well-differentiated cancer, and has a good therapeutic effect on papillary carcinoma and follicular carcinoma. Therefore, routinely giving 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.