In most cases, your doctor removes the entire thyroid, along with any lymph nodes that look to be problems. If the cancer is small, you might choose to have only part of your thyroid removed.

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

It’s responsible for 80% of all thyroid cancer cases. It tends to grow slowly, but often spreads to the lymph nodes in your neck. Lymph nodes act like filters to rid your body of foreign matter ...

Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer is more clinically aggressive and can be challenging to treat. These cancers can spread (metastasizes) to the neck lymph nodes, lungs, and bones. Poorly ...

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 ...

A fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is often performed to obtain a sample from the thyroid nodule or lymph node, which is then examined for cancer cells. Imaging studies, such as ultrasound ...