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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.

Graves’ Disease Treatment

Thyroid Cancer: Follicular Cancer

This page includes more advanced information on a specific type of thyroid cancer: follicular thyroid cancer. Please read our Introduction to Thyroid Cancer first, which gives a general overview of all types of thyroid cancer .

Thyroid Cancer: Anaplastic Cancer

This page includes more advanced information on a specific type of thyroid cancer—anaplastic thyroid cancer. Please read our Introduction to Thyroid Cancer article first, which gives a general overview of all types of thyroid cancer.
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