Monday, March 31, 2008

The early symptoms of thyroid cancer

Thyroid cancer is a malignant thyroid epithelial tissue, if not early detection, it will be buried in the neck, stars a time bomb which would endanger the patient's life.
Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, the survey data show that ,1971-1991, the total Harbin City six hospitals receive 204 cases of thyroid cancer, the average duration of 2.5 years, usually late attendance.
Early detection of thyroid cancer by:
① children and women over the age of 40 is more of, male to female ratio was 1:2.4. Early lack of characteristic clinical features, but more than 95 percent of the patients had cervical mass (or mass), especially in isolation, irregular, not the state, the activities of the rigid poor masses, should be particularly son to alert.
② In addition, there are mass following symptoms: patients hoarseness or drinking water, choking; difficulty breathing or swallowing difficulties; ears, pillow, a radioactive shoulder pain; neck vein compression or expansion of a cracked eye, the pupil narrowing in the same lateral or bilateral, such as swollen lymph nodes. All the above symptoms, but also a high degree of thyroid cancer may be suspected.
① for needle aspiration cytology. This method is the most reliable thyroid cancer diagnosis one way, the correct rate reached more than 80 percent of quick frozen biopsy of thyroid cancer is the key means of diagnosis, the correct string of nearly 90% paraffin biopsy for thyroid check the best cancer diagnosis, the correct rate can reach 100 percent.
④ neck and thyroid B-isotope scan.
In short, only patients of their vigilance, early detection of cervical tumors, to the hospital early diagnosis, early surgery can hope to be radical. 

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