People with papillary thyroid cancer that hasn’t spread beyond the thyroid gland appear to have good outcomes regardless of whether or not they are treated, new research shows.

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As overall cancer rates are declining in the United States, thyroid cancer counters the trend. It’s being diagnosed more frequently, especially in women. Women are three times more likely than men to develop…

As seen on “NBC Nightly News” Monday, December 21, the thyroid cancer rate is rising rapidly, especially among women. The American Thyroid Association’s members are working to educate more people about…

Childhood cancer survivors are 18 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than the general population, UK researchers report.

“Survival after childhood cancer has greatly improved over the last three…

During the American Thyroid Association’s (ATA) 80th Annual Meeting September 23-27, 2009, held at The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, David S. Cooper, MD, professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins…

It’s a medical mystery that has been developing for at least a decade: thyroid cancer—not breast, prostate, lung, or colon cancer—is the fastest increasing cancer among women and men in…

Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults,…

After treatment for thyroid cancer, patients may face a slightly increased risk of developing a second primary malignancy elsewhere in the body, research suggests.

Dr. Jonathan D. Tward from…

Efforts to treat pediatric papillary thyroid cancer are greatly improved by detecting the disease as early as possible, making the patient’s age the most important factor in determining a…

Ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration (US FNA) biopsy of the thyroid gland is an established diagnostic test that is routinely used as the first step in the evaluation of…

Thyroid cancers that are clinically insignificant - and may never cause serious disease - may be treated too aggressively in some patients, according to the author of the 2006 Hayes…

The number of new cases of thyroid cancer among women in the U.S. has increased over the past decade despite a decline among women in mortality rates for…

Although the incidence of thyroid cancer has more than doubled in the past 30 years, the rise is being attributed to improved diagnostic techniques of previously…