Thyroid Cancer Stories
- Minor habits and exposure to everyday objects may surprisingly affect the production of key hormones in the human body. Here are five of them you probably did not know about.
- MasSpec Pen is a new diagnostic tool that can detect malignant tumors in just seconds, improving treatment and reducing the odds of cancer recurrence.
- Don’t like all of your organs? No problem — you can live without a whole bunch of them.
- If you are one of those oft-maligned people who are always cold, you are not alone. And you may or may not have one of these medical conditions.
- Feeling tired all the time could be a result of sleep loss, or a red flag for these 5 serious health conditions.
- A news study finds that primary care physicians are critical in identifying children and adolescents who have thyroid disorders.
- As of Jan. 1, 2016, more than 15.5 million Americans have a history of cancer; in 2026, this number will reach more than 20 million.
- Flame retardants may disrupt thyroid and estrogen hormone production, leading to thyroid disease.
- An experimental AstraZeneca drug that failed last year as a treatment for a rare cancer of the eye has been awarded special "orphan" status in the United States for a type of thyroid cancer.
- The 1986 explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant released catastrophic amounts of radiation into the air. How did this affect surrounding populations?
- Scientists removed the word "cancer" from the name of a common thyroid tumor, which requires less aggressive treatment than typical cancerous tumors.
- President Obama promised to undertake a national effort to cure cancer, a “new moonshot” with Vice President Biden in charge of “mission control.”