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Learn about thyroid surgery

Thyroid Cancer Treatments

Your doctor stages your thyroid tumor in order to develop the most effective treatment plan. Thyroid cancer treatment almost always includes surgery, although the type of surgery is influenced by the patient's age and tumor size. Some small thyroid cancer tumors are cured only with surgery.

Medullary Thyroid Cancer Treatments

The main aspect of medullary thyroid cancer treatment is relatively straightforward: remove the thyroid. Regardless of the form of medullary thyroid cancer (MTC), a total thyroidectomy is performed to prevent the cancer from spreading to other parts of the thyroid gland.

Robotic Thyroidectomy

There's a new treatment option for patients who need to have thyroid surgery: robotic thyroidectomy. No, that doesn't mean that a robot is doing your surgery. Robotic thyroidectomy does mean that you won't have a scar on your neck, and for many people, that's reason enough to try this recently-developed surgical technique.

Hurthle Cell Thyroid Tumor

Hurthle Cell Thyroid Cancer:  Not Quite the Same as Follicular Cancer
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