Thyroid_Cancer

Thyroid Cancer The word cancer has earned itself the connotation of fear and death. This is true for many types of cancer, but thyroid cancer often has a different story. Because it is usually curable with surgery, causes little pain and has effective means of diagnosis and treatment, it is often termed “the cancer to get” (American Thyroid Association). This is because it is one of the most curable cancers. There exist two main types of ablation treatment, and both have been proven effective in treating and eliminating the disease. The most widely accepted technique is to administer a uniform dose to all patients who fit a certain criteria. The second technique is to perform an I-131 dosimetry to determine the maximum safe dose for each individual patient. Dosimetry is complex, but it allows healthcare providers to safely increase the dose past the usual levels in order to treat the individual case and ablate the cancerous tissue. Thyroid cancers are approached through a systematic method of diagnosis and treatment. These parameters vary according to the different types of thyroid cancer, but monitoring the disease after treatment is uniform. Since the thyroid tissue is thyroid, cancer, disease, tissue, patient, treatment, thyroglobulin, levels, i-131, cancerous, body, because, whole, scan, patients, metastatic, dose, cancers, types, ablation, uniform, undifferentiated, two, thyroidectomy, therapy, technique, system, scans, often, negative, monitoring, monitored, issue, individual, effective