Transcript: Lori Wirth, MD: Hello, and welcome to Cure Expert Connections on differentiated thyroid cancer. I’m Lori Wirth. I’m an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Hunt: So you're right. I mean, the wait-and-see, if we are concerned about kind of what we call the well-differentiated, so people may have heard of papillary thyroid cancer or follicular ...

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 ...

Thyroid cancer can be: differentiated - the cancer cells look a lot like normal thyroid cells poorly differentiated - the cancer cells look less like normal thyroid cells undifferentiated - the cancer ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Radioiodine therapy after surgery increases relative survival rates in differentiated thyroid cancer patients across all risk groups. The greatest benefit is ...