For patients under 55 years old: Papillary thyroid cancer is classified as stage 2 if the cancer has spread to distant parts ...

Kathryn Barley can finally find time to sit down and relax. It wasn't long ago the bump on her /*thyroid*/ gland caused too much pain for anything at all. "The nodule moved up above the collarbone and ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A groundbreaking minimally invasive procedure for treating thyroid nodules is making waves in Utah, offering patients an alternative to major surgery for this common thyroid ...

Remote-access thyroidectomy may be appropriate for a small group of patients who meet strict selection criteria and only when performed by experienced surgeons, according to a new statement from the ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. With a few notable exceptions, the majority of fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies of thyroid ...

Surgical approaches that reduce incision size and recovery time from thyroid surgery work well in children, physician-scientists report. Complication rates of minimally invasive thyroid surgery are on ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Thyroid nodules are a common health problem that are usually benign, but occasionally have to be taken out. While the procedure used to mean a risky surgery, that's not the ...

Second or none: Many patients treated for refractory differentiated thyroid cancer with small molecular kinase inhibitors do not receive a second line of therapy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from ...

New data from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers suggest that routine use of Veracyte's Afirma gene expression classifier for clarifying inconclusive results on thyroid nodule ...

Veracyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCYT), a leading genomic diagnostics company, today announced the publication of two studies demonstrating the Afirma GRID (Genomic Resource for Intelligent Discovery) research ...

A recent thyroid procedure I had involved taking an iodine pill that made me highly radioactive. For about a month I was a danger to others and had to follow a long list of safety rules. My photos — ...