Thyroid Cancer
The thyroid itself, is a butterfly-shaped gland that is located at the base of your neck. (It’s just below your Adam's apple) The thyroid gland is solely responsible for producing hormones that help regulate every aspect of your metabolism. Ranging from your heart rate, to how quickly you burn calories, as well as helping control your weight.
Sometimes or another in our life, you may develop one or more solid or fluid-filled lumps in your thyroid, called nodules. The majority of these nodules are non-cancerous and cause no symptoms, and are easily treated. To help give you just an idea of how rare this Thyroid Cancer is, statistics show, that just 5 percent of nodules are malignant. In other words, cancer causing. Only about 20,000 people a year in the United States are diagnosed with Thyroid cancer, and many of these people are cured. Rarely do people die from Thyroid Cancer.
So for most Thyroid Cancer sufferers, the prognosis is excellent.
The most common
types of thyroid cancer can often be completely removed with
surgery, with a low chance of it being caught again. Five-year
survival rates of Thyroid cancer are among the highest of any type
of cancer — more than 90 percent five-year survival rate.
So, to even increase your large odds even more, make sure to get
your regular physicals with your doctor, and if you feel suspicious,
don’t hesitate to get
another check-up just to comfirm whether or not your suspicions
o contracting Thyroid Cancer are true.
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