Thyroid cancer has always been known as “lazy cancer”, “happiness cancer” and “the kindest cancer”. Therefore, many people suffering from thyroid cancer do not take it seriously, and procrastinate and let it go. Lots of people are there.
Among all malignant tumors, the vast majority of thyroid cancers are of very low malignancy. One of the most common pathological types of thyroid cancer is papillary carcinoma, accounting for about 70% to 80%. This cancer develops slowly, and patients can even live with the tumor for several years without any symptoms.
Many patients are diagnosed when they accidentally discover a mass in the front of the neck or swollen lymph nodes in the neck and go to the hospital. Once diagnosed, surgical treatment can be performed as soon as possible. After treatment, most patients can have a good prognosis, and there is no problem in working and living like normal people.
Thyroid cancer is “kind”, but it cannot be ignored. If papillary cancer is not cured for a long time, it will gradually infiltrate the surrounding tissues and metastasize with lymphatic or blood flow. After the advanced stage, it may be accompanied by multiple lymph node metastases, bone metastases, organ metastases and other problems near or far away from the body. Therefore, timely treatment is very important.
Most of thyroid cancer can be cured, the prognosis is good, and does not affect normal life, but there is no absolute. Papillary cancer is not the only family of thyroid cancer, there are three other brothers: follicular carcinoma, medullary carcinoma, anaplastic carcinoma.
Papillary and follicular carcinomas have low malignancy and little impact on life expectancy. However, medullary carcinoma and undifferentiated carcinoma have a high degree of malignancy and are difficult to treat, especially undifferentiated carcinoma. The disease progresses rapidly and the prognosis is extremely poor. The six-month mortality rate is as high as 68.4%.
This type of thyroid cancer, known as “absolute incurable disease”, is completely incompatible with happiness cancer. If you ignore it like papillary cancer, it won’t take long before you learn how powerful it is.
The clinical manifestations of anaplastic thyroid cancer are rapidly growing mass, hoarseness, difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, etc. Even if you seek medical treatment in time, some patients have not been properly checked in hospital, and the tumor will grow larger to inoperable.
It can be said that other cancers are generally divided into stages 1, 2, 3 and 4 according to the severity of the disease, but only stage 4 for undifferentiated cancer, because the tumor progresses rapidly within a few days, No other tumor can compare.
The first choice for undifferentiated cancer is surgery, but most of the undifferentiated cancers grow in a fusion shape and adhere closely to the surrounding tissues. Even patients with mild fusions who are able to undergo surgery tend to relapse within a short period of time after surgery.
Most patients with anaplastic carcinoma only have 6-12 months from onset to death, the mortality rate within one year is as high as 95%, and the five-year survival rate is almost zero. This king of thyroid cancer, can you still ignore it? Faced with such a high mortality rate, has it refreshed your understanding of thyroid cancer?
This is the case with any disease. If you pay attention to it, it will return to you in the same way. Don’t let the disease erode your health by not taking it seriously. Only your body is yours, you must learn to cherish it. After all, in this life, without health, people are busy in vain!