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What is the treatment of thyroid cancer?
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Surgery: Thyroid cancer is treated surgically by removal of all the thyroid or a portion of the thyroid. After surgery, patients at higher risk of recurrence or with more aggressive cancers may be treated with radioactive iodine. Rarely, external radiation or chemotherapy is added in very severe cases.
Answered 3/24/2020
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Surgery: Surgery is the most critical part of management for thyroid cancer and is the mainstay of treatment. As such it is quite important to pick a surgeon with extensive experience treating thyroid cancer. Usually surgery is followed by radioactive iodine ablation depending on the extent of disease.
Answered 2/25/2017
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Treatment thyroid: The treatment for thyroid cancer is surgery, followed by radioactive iodine in some cases.
Answered 5/18/2016
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