Recurrent thyroid symptoms

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Thyroid cancer is a common malignant tumor in clinic. If it is not treated in time, it is likely to have recurrence symptoms. What are the recurrence symptoms of thyroid cancer? The recurrence of thyroid cancer is usually characterized by low malignancy and slow growth. Patients can live with the tumor for several years without any symptoms. Most of them inadvertently find anterior cervical mass or cervical lymph nodes Swelling and go to the hospital, then thyroid cancer recurrence after the general symptoms?

Recurrent thyroid symptoms

First: the recurrence of thyroid cancer is usually characterized by low malignancy and slow growth. Patients can live with the tumor for several years without any symptoms. Most of them go to the hospital when they accidentally find a mass in front of the neck or enlargement of the neck lymph nodes. Some patients are diagnosed as benign thyroid tumor preoperatively. After surgical resection, they are diagnosed as thyroid cancer by pathological examination. More than 60% of thyroid cancer had cervical lymph node metastasis and about 10% had distant hematogenous metastasis.

Second, the recurrence time of thyroid cancer is mostly within 5 years. About 40% of the recurrences occurred in the primary surgical site and 60% in the cervical lymph nodes. Therefore, patients with thyroid cancer should pay special attention to whether there are palpable masses in the original surgical site or neck.

Third: because the effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy on most thyroid cancer is not obvious, surgical treatment is still the main treatment for thyroid cancer. The recurrence or metastasis of thyroid cancer after operation is closely related to the extent of operation. According to statistics, the recurrence rate was 40% - 60% after simple tumor resection, 20% - 30% after tumor resection and thyroid lobectomy, and 10% - 20% after combined radical neck surgery. In addition, the malignant degree of thyroid cancer also determines the recurrence rate, that is to say, the higher the malignant degree, the greater the possibility of postoperative recurrence or distant metastasis. In addition, relapse and metastasis are closely related to the first choice of treatment. The 10-year survival rate is more than 90% if the operation plan is made and selected properly.

matters needing attention

Once thyroid cancer recurrence is found, patients should not be pessimistic and give up treatment. If you can actively cooperate with the doctor, get the correct and timely treatment, still have a good effect. Patients should not go to the doctor blindly, because improper treatment still has the possibility of recurrence, and with the increase of recurrence times, not only the difficulty of treatment increases, but also the malignant degree of cancer increases.