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.

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 ...

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 ...

An endocrinologist, endocrine surgeon or an ear nose and throat doctor may need to perform an ultrasound of the thyroid to see if any areas of growth are not uniform. These “masses” or ...

22-year-old Esha Adikeshava opens up to PEOPLE about getting her thyroid checked out after thousands of people noticed the lump in her neck Athena Sobhan is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE since 2024.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.