Thyroid tumour

Introduction: Thyroid tumour

Description of Thyroid tumour

Thyroid tumour (medical condition): Cancer of the thyroid gland. Types of thyroid cancer include papillary thyroid cancer, follicular ...more

Thyroid tumour: See also:

Thyroid cancer:
  »Introduction: Thyroid cancer
  »Symptoms of Thyroid cancer
  »Causes of Thyroid cancer
  »Treatments for Thyroid cancer

Thyroid tumour: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Thyroid tumour:

• Thyroid
• Thyroid symptoms (172 causes)
• Thyroid disease (18 causes)
• Thyroid disorder
• Thyroid pain (15 causes)
• Tumour

Thyroid tumour as a Disease

Thyroid tumour: Another name for Thyroid cancer (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Thyroid cancer
  »Symptoms of Thyroid cancer
  »Causes of Thyroid cancer
  »Treatments for Thyroid cancer

Thyroid tumour: Related Diseases

Thyroid tumour: Thyroid tumour is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Endocrine system cancer
• Cancer
• Thyroid disorders
• Endocrine system tumors
• Endocrine system conditions
• Thyroid conditions

Causes of Thyroid tumour

Some of the causes of Thyroid tumour are included in the list below:

• Familial medullary thyroid cancer - an altered RET gene causes a familial form of medullary thyroid cancer
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) syndrome

Read more about causes of Thyroid tumour (Thyroid cancer)

Symptoms of Thyroid tumour (Thyroid cancer)

Some of the symptoms of Thyroid tumour incude:

• Neck lump - in the front of the neck near the Adam's apple
• Neck nodule
• Painless neck lump
• Neck swelling
• Hoarseness

See full list of 13 symptoms of Thyroid tumour (Thyroid cancer)

Treatments for Thyroid tumour (Thyroid cancer)

Treatments for Thyroid tumour (Thyroid cancer) include:

• Surgery
  • Total thyroidectomy
  • Lobectomy (thyroid)
  • Local lymph node removal
  • Parathyroid gland removal - often removed with the thyroid

See full list of 12 treatments for Thyroid tumour

Treatment of Thyroid tumour: For more treatment information about Thyroid tumour, see treatment of Thyroid cancer (Thyroid tumour)

Thyroid tumour: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Thyroid tumour:

• papillary cancer
• medullary cancer
• anaplastic cancer of thyroid
• thyroidectomy
• parathyroidectomy
• tetany

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