The thyroid gland is a small butterfly-shaped gland in front of the neck Read on to learn its role and what happens if you ...

Thyroid cancer continues to be overdiagnosed, though the survival rate remains unchanged, according to a study published Feb. 5 in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Here are five notes from the ...

Thyroid cancer incidence then plateaued until 2019 at a rate of 14.1 cases per 100,000 people. At the same time, the absolute rate of metastasis at diagnosis remained stable at 0.4 cases per ...

Thyroid nodules initially ... and the median maximum diameter of nodules biopsied for the first time was 18 mm (range 14-24 mm). Of the nodules, 21.4% were iso-anechoic, 44.2% isoechoic, and ...

Objective: Conventional fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) for cystic thyroid nodules (CTNs ... The final pathology revealed a benign nodule in 98 cases (82.4%) and a carcinoma in 21 (17.6 ...

Adults with type 2 diabetes using a GLP-1 drug have a similar risk for thyroid cancer as those using other diabetes drugs, though increased thyroid cancer risk was observed in the first year after ...

In this issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Michelle M Chen and colleagues1 report their findings on trends in the incidence of thyroid cancer in the USA from 1975 to 2019. The authors show ...

January is Thyroid Awareness Month ... or consider fine-needle aspiration if a mass is present to confirm if the nodule is cancerous or benign and referral to a Thyroid Specialist and Endocrinologist.

Most thyroid tests don’t require any special preparation ... You’ll also need to fast for at least 4 hours before the first part of the procedure (the uptake). You’ll need to fast for ...

Objectives: To evaluate the application value of a generally trained artificial intelligence (AI) automatic diagnosis system in the malignancy diagnosis of follicular-patterned thyroid lesions ...