Kathryn Barley can finally find time to sit down and relax. It wasn't long ago the bump on her /*thyroid*/ gland caused too much pain for anything at all. "The nodule moved up above the collarbone and ...

An isthmusectomy is a procedure to treat thyroid tumors in the center of your thyroid gland. It preserves more of your thyroid tissue than more invasive procedures. An isthmusectomy is a type of ...

Remote-access thyroidectomy may be appropriate for a small group of patients who meet strict selection criteria and only when performed by experienced surgeons, according to a new statement from the ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. With a few notable exceptions, the majority of fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies of thyroid ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Thyroid nodules are a common health problem that are usually benign, but occasionally have to be taken out. While the procedure used to mean a risky surgery, that's not the ...

Second or none: Many patients treated for refractory differentiated thyroid cancer with small molecular kinase inhibitors do not receive a second line of therapy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from ...

HOUSTON – Roughly 17,000 thyroid surgeries are performed each year. Many doctors remove the gland through the neck, leaving a highly visible scar. But a procedure called transoral endocrine surgery ...

If part of your thyroid needs to be removed in a lobectomy, the remaining gland will likely still be able to fulfill most of the functions of a full thyroid gland. Your thyroid is a small ...

Although consensus guidelines recommend total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) ≥1 cm, it remains unclear whether this procedure confers a survival advantage. This was a retrospective ...

Popular rock frontman Michael Sweet of Stryper gave his fans an update on his cancer battle on Christmas Eve. The 62-year-old ...