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Moreover, thyroid cancer has the ability to spread and invade different parts of the throat, also affecting adjacent structured in the neck. The most common areas that tumors can affect include the tracheal and esophageal extensions, lymph nodes producing a lymphatic spread to the jugular and to the supraclavicular lymoh nodes and much more, the tumor may reach to the lumph nodes in the chest.
It is imortant to note that in some cases, thyroid cancer can affect ot only the areas around the neck such as lymph nodes, but also it can spread to other parts of the body through the bloodstream. This travel of the tumor to other organs is known as metastases and even though this form is very rare, it can be quite severe due to its possibility to affect the lungs and bones. What is more is that staging system is very used in describing the extent of the affection in both the thyroid itself and the neck. In addition, the staging system used to describe thyroid tumors is the TNM system and is used to identify and descriebe various types of cancer. The TNM systems includes 3 components: T-Describing the extend of the "primary" tumor; N-describing the spread to the lymp nodes and M-describing the spread to other organs.
In conclusion, the patients who suffer from thyroid cancer have the posibility to find out the stage and extension of their affection by performing various test and in this way the physician may prescriebe an appropriate treatment.
For more info regarding
thyroid please
check
www.thyroid-info-center.com/thyroid-conditions.htm or
www.thyroid-info-center.com/thyroid-cancer.htm
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