Hello. I'm Doctor Clayton Hess, founder of CureRays Radiation Medicine. Let me walk you through this page: Keep Thyroid Cancer Away®.

Thyroid cancer is the one page in this programme where the honest advice sometimes runs the other way. Most thyroid cancers are extraordinarily survivable — about 99.9% five-year relative survival when confined to the thyroid.

Here is what you'll find on this page.

The overdiagnosis conversation, first. Thyroid cancer diagnoses rose dramatically over recent decades while deaths stayed almost flat.

Who is at risk. Radiation exposure to the head or neck, especially in childhood — the strongest established risk factor. This includes past therapeutic radiation and nuclear fallout exposure; Sex and age — about three times more common in women, often diagnosed younger than most cancers; Family history of thyroid cancer, and inherited syndromes: MEN2 and familial medullary thyroid cancer (RET gene), and Cowden and familial adenomatous polyposis syndromes.

Finding it early.

How it’s diagnosed. Neck ultrasound characterises the nodule and checks the lymph nodes.

Here is what you can do next.

Go deeper on thyroid cancer. Read the full plain-language guide, or ask us where external radiation fits in your situation. Look for the button marked Full thyroid cancer guide.

You can always reach our Grass Valley office at 5 3 0. 8 0 2. 6 4 0 0.

This page is informational only. It is not medical advice — please confirm anything here with your care team.

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