When the cancer is confined to the thyroid, the 10-year survival rate is around 90%. When it has spread to the lymph nodes, the 10-year survival rate is 70%. Patients with cancer found in distant ...

Stage 1: The thyroid tumor can be any size. It may have spread to localized lymph nodes near the thyroid gland, but there is an absence of metastases, meaning it has not to distant sites in the body.

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 ...