Thyroid cancer is difficult to detect and easily spread

Thyroid cancer usually has no clear signs so silently metastasize to many other parts, when it is discovered, it is late.

Dr. Nguyen Thai Hoang, a high-tech Department of Internal Medicine, said that thyroid cancer is a common cancer, accounting for 90% of patients with endocrine cancer. If detected early, the treatment effect is good. However, the disease often does not have clear signs so latent metastasis to many other organs in the body leads to a high risk of death.

Thyroid cancer is a common type of cancer.(Artwork: WN).

On average, the department receives 25-30 cases of thyroid cancer in which many metastasize invades the thyroid gland. Even many cancer patients invade the esophagus, trachea, and varicose veins, making the metastasis of the tumor extremely complicated and dangerous. Some cases of invasive tumors cannot be completely removed, resulting in low therapeutic effect after surgery and high recurrence.

Dr. Hoang advised, when there is a thyroid gland disease, patients should be re-examined regularly though benign tumors to be closely monitored. If there is any change in the morphology of the thyroid gland on ultrasound or tomography results, the doctor will have more accurate assessments, combined with puncture thyroid cells to give surgery indication timely.

People who do not have clinical manifestations should also check every 6 months. If a tumor is present in the neck, it is necessary to go immediately to the specialized endocrinology clinic for physical examination and to do the necessary tests to screen for early detection. Also need to pay attention to expressions such as discomfort in the neck, difficulty swallowing, hoarseness, persistent cough.

For prevention, should have a healthy lifestyle, do not use stimulants such as alcohol, beer, cigarettes. Eat lots of green vegetables, limit your intake of high-fat foods, increase your physical activity to help your body metabolize well.