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Thyroid Cancer

The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland at the base of the neck responsible for controlling your metabolism.

    • Thyroid cancer affects more than 40,000 people in the U.S. each year. If you are one of them, receiving a cancer diagnosis can be scary.
    • Fortunately, thyroid cancer is highly curable. Our thyroid surgeons at the Tulane Thyroid Center are among the most experienced in the country. They perform several hundred thyroidectomies each year, using minimally invasive procedures whenever possible.

Symptoms of Thyroid Cancer?

    • A lump in your neck
    • Difficulty swallowing
    • Voice changes

How Do We Treat Thyroid Cancer?

Most thyroid cancers eventually need surgery for treatment. This can range from a partial thyroidectomy to a total thyroidectomy with lymph node removal.

Lymph node metastasis in thyroid cancer is common and is present in more than 30 percent of patients presenting with the most common type of thyroid cancer, papillary thyroid cancer.

More aggressive thyroid cancers with variable prognoses include follicular, medullary, poorly differentiated, and anaplastic thyroid cancers.