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Suggest Treatment For Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

My name Shefali Begum, age 38 yrs hight 152 cm, wt 45 kg,Dhaka, Bangladesh, last 17 september'11 my throat left side sawlen, FNAC test & doctor dected papillery thyroid carconoma, so, this week I shall go to thakurpukur cancer hospital, I need some ENT specialist profile, Now what do I ? please help me
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Thanks for your question on HCM.
I can understand your situation and problem.
Papillary thyroid cancer has good prognosis if not spread in distal organs.
So first step in the management is to decide stage of the papillary thyroid cancer.
So you will require PET scan first to know about distal organ metastasis . If distal organ metastases are present than it is known as stage 4 cancer. In this surgery is not done. Only palliative chemotherapy and radiotherapy is given. These patients carry poor prognosis.
But if distal metastases are absent then surgical excision of tumour is treatment of choice with post operative chemotherapy and radiotherapy should be given. These patients carry good prognosis.
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Suggest Treatment For Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Thanks for your question on HCM. I can understand your situation and problem. Papillary thyroid cancer has good prognosis if not spread in distal organs. So first step in the management is to decide stage of the papillary thyroid cancer. So you will require PET scan first to know about distal organ metastasis . If distal organ metastases are present than it is known as stage 4 cancer. In this surgery is not done. Only palliative chemotherapy and radiotherapy is given. These patients carry poor prognosis. But if distal metastases are absent then surgical excision of tumour is treatment of choice with post operative chemotherapy and radiotherapy should be given. These patients carry good prognosis.