“Poorly differentiated” refers to cancer cells that have more abnormalities and look less like normal cancer cells. Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer is uncommon, accounting for fewer than 5% of ...

"well-differentiated" means the cancer cells resemble the normal cells from which they grew. Well-differentiated cancers grow more slowly and have a better prognosis than undifferentiated cancers, ...

If a doctor has diagnosed you with thyroid cancer, the next step in your cancer journey may be treatment. What are your treatment options, and how do doctors decide which one might be best for you?

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A 5-year follow-up of those randomized to receive or not receive radioiodine after thyroidectomy showed nearly the same low ...

Thyroid cancer recurrence risk was not elevated among patients with high-normal vs low-normal exposure to TSH following thyroidectomy.

Adjuvant radioactive iodine therapy is widely used to treat well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC), but is known to result in radiation absorption by the testes, the long-term effects of ...

More information: Thi-Van-Trinh Tran et al, All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Low-Risk Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Survivors in the United States, Thyroid (2023). DOI: 10.1089/thy ...

Follicular thyroid cancer with bone involvement was associated with a significantly elevated risk for brain metastases among women.

Recent observational studies have inconsistently reported associations of GLP-1 use with both medullary thyroid cancer and differentiated thyroid cancer, but these studies have been subject to bias.

MSD and Eisai’s trial saw mixed success with its two primary endpoints, seeing success in progression-free survival, but ...