Get Virtual Care
For Businesses
About Us
A member asked:
What is thyroid cancer? is treatment possible?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
Lesion in thyroid: Carcinoma of the thyroid not uncommon and presenting with a solitary lesion. If lesion cold on scan and solitary resection necessary. There is a 30%+ rate of conversion to malignancy of the solitary adenoma. The lesions present as a papillary or follicular carcinoma when fully transformed. Total lobectomy or thyroidectomy needed depending on size of lesion, age of patient and nodal status.
Answered 11/30/2014
3.5k views
Related Questions
A member asked:
If you have a thyroid cancer 20% but if remove already & the right also it remove how stage of cancer you have in your body and we need to treatment ?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
I have low iodine diet before radio iodine treatment for thyroid cancers?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
I have to be isolated after radiation treatment of thyroid cancer? What do I do?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
I recieved rai treatment for thyroid cancer in april 2013. Can i start trying to have a baby now, 6 months later?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
A member asked:
I had a hemithyroidectomy in 2010. I had a 3.5cm thyroid module. The diagnosis was minimally invasive thyroid cancer. Is no further treatment ok?
9 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Didn't find what you're looking for?
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your questionMore of what we treat
Download HealthTap
Video visit and message your doctor
