The connection between obesity and thyroid cancer underscores the importance of maintaining a healthy weight. With scientific ...

palpable thyroid mass in the neck, unintended weight loss or weight gain (weight fluctuations), fatigue, and pain or discomfort with swallowing but most commonly a neck mass or swollen lymph nodes.

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is the most effective test for determining if a thyroid mass is cancerous or not, and it has a 97% accuracy rate. This simple outpatient procedure involves a small ...

Many patients with papillary and follicular thyroid cancer do not show symptoms. Patients typically seek medical attention when they could see or feel a mass or lump (nodule) on the neck. Masses that ...

and laboratory studies without any evidence of thyroid mass or malignancy. In addition, further evaluations with chest/abdominal/pelvic CT as well as a bone scan failed to reveal any evidence of ...

Noah S. Kalman, MD, MBA, discusses the evolving role of molecular and genetic testing in thyroid cancer management.

Thyroid cancer continues to be overdiagnosed, though the survival rate remains unchanged, according to a study published Feb. 5 in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Here are five notes from the ...

At surgery, the mass could not be entirely resected, so a ventral thyroid debulking procedure was performed, and corticosteroids were given postoperatively to improve the patient’s breathing.

This is likely because our population was referred for EBUS-TBNA of mediastinal lymph nodes or masses, hence with a much higher pre-test probability of having a malignancy outside the thyroid.