DEFINITIONS
Thyroid cancer is a malignancy of the thyroid that has 4 types: papillary, follicular, anaplastic, or medullary. Cancer rarely causes enlargement of the gland, more often causes a small growth (nodule) in the gland. Most are benign thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer is usually curable.
Thyroid cancer often limits the ability to absorb iodine and limit the ability to produce thyroid hormone, but sometimes cancer produce enough thyroid hormone, causing hyperthyroidism.
Thyroid nodules tend to be malignant if it:
- just found one
- Skening thyroid nodules do not indicate that the function
- nodulnya solid and does not have fluid (cystic)
- nodulnya hard
- rapid growth.
