“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 ...

Papillary and follicular thyroid cancers are considered well-differentiated cancers. Papillary thyroid cancer is the most prevalent type of thyroid cancer--with over 50,000 new cases per year in the ...

The expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is characteristic of differentiated thyroid cancer and is associated with aggressive tumor behavior and a poor clinical outcome.

Severity increases with each stage until stage 4, at which point the cancer has spread the furthest. It is also worth noting that with differentiated thyroid cancer (papillary or follicular), age ...

An oncology nurse treated her patients throughout the worst days of the pandemic—but a golf ball–size lump was a clue to her ...

This retrospective clinical study compared responses to the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer in diabetic patients treated with metformin, diabetic patients not treated with metformin ...

More than one-third of patients treated for differentiated thyroid cancer reported elevated anxiety and more than 15% reported a high level of depression at an annual follow-up, according to study ...

This is important because the various forms of thyroid cancer fall on a very wide spectrum. Differentiated thyroid cancer (which is further broken down into subtypes of papillary, follicular ...

Medullary thyroid cancer is less differentiated and forms in C cells, which produce calcitonin. Calcitonin is a hormone that helps regulate calcium levels in the blood. Papillary cancer is rarely ...

Differentiated thyroid cancer patients who receive radioiodine (RAI) treatment after surgery have increased relative survival rates compared to those who do not receive the treatment. According to ...

It’s also rare (about 2% of thyroid cancer cases) and the hardest to treat. Cancers are often described as well-differentiated or undifferentiated. Well-differentiated cancer cells have ...