In honor of Thyroid Awareness Month, we are exploring the causes of thyroid diseases and thyroid cancer in our community.

The thyroid gland's health can significantly impact metabolism and growth. Recognizing signs such as a persistent neck lump, ...

Also, neck lumps aren’t always related to the thyroid—they can be caused by swollen lymph nodes or cysts, which often go away on their own. Still, if you notice a lump that’s not going away ...

Symptoms of thyroid cancer, like a throat lump or swollen lymph nodes, are sometimes discovered during a routine physical ...

Around 80-90% of thyroid cancer cases are papillary cancer. Papillary cancer can spread to the lymph nodes in the neck, and in rare cases to the lungs. Fortunately, papillary thyroid cancer is the ...

Neck ultrasonography is widely used for follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC ... pathological findings from dissected lymph nodes of 19 patients who underwent neck ...

The TNM classification protocol (tumor size, presence of lymph nodes, distant metastases) and age is the general tumor risk assessment algorithm. A number of thyroid-specific staging protocols ...

Sentinel lymph nodes are those that directly drain the lymph from the ... The most common of these are benign thyroid diseases, such as hyperthyroisim due to Plummer’s adenoma or Basedow’s disease, ...

Thyroid Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA ... A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Parathyroidectomy is surgery to remove one or more ...