Limit radiation exposure. Radiation exposure is a known risk factor for thyroid cancer, especially for children. If you or your child must have an imaging test (like an X-ray or CT scan), make ...

A study published in early February found that thyroid cancer has been overdiagnosed for over a decade, likely due to the increase in medical imaging. “What we found was that although the ...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common type of cancer to affect your thyroid ... You might only find out about it because of an imaging test for another problem. Or, during a routine ...

There are two situations in which diagnostic scanning has been used in the evaluation of thyroid cancer: pre-131 I treatment ... diagnositic pre-131 I therapy scan in the immediate postoperative ...

Helene Lindfors, Ph.D. Student at the Endocrine Surgery research group, the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, ...

The taller-than-wide thyroid nodule feature did not demonstrate sufficient power to differentiate between malignant and benign nodules.

McCoy: Exactly, because thyroid cancer typically takes a long time to ... or maybe they had a recent CT scan. But if you’re worried about there being something in the thyroid, and if you ...

Zumsteg said greater use of thyroid ultrasounds and imaging in health care contributed to rising reported thyroid cancer incidence over time. “As a medical profession, we’re doing more imaging ...

Novel PET Tracer Enhances Lesion Detection in Medullary Thyroid Cancer, Offers Potential for Targeted Therapy Jan. 13, 2024 — A newly developed PET imaging agent has been found to be effective ...

Additional symptoms can include an overactive or underactive thyroid gland. Thyroid cancer is diagnosed through blood tests and imaging. Blood testing allows physicians to determine whether the ...