The most common treatment od thyroid cancer is SURGERY, to remove it, also with the recent use of lasers and microscope surgery, to remove with precision also the smallest cancers in this gland.

Then, there’s the RADIO-THERAPY, with high doses of X-rays to destroy the cancer cells; until some years ago, it wasn’t a very effective and selective technique because it exposed also the rest of the patient’s body to a dangerous radiation level.

Today, luckily, there are some methods of focused X-rays beams on very small areas to hit only the cancerous cells, with the assistance of a computer for a three-dimensional and magnified sight of the sick area.

The HORMONE THERAPY administers hormones to block the cancerous cells growth, preventing the production of the other thyroid hormones that could stimulate the cancerous cell growth.

Another therapy is making drink to the patient a liquid containing radioactive I2 that is absorbed by the thyroid and it concentrates in the remaining healthy tissue, killing the cancerous cells.

The CHEMOTHERAPY uses medical drugs to destroy the cancerous cells.

The drugs are administered by systemic way (orally, as pills, or by injection) and they reach the cancerous cells, after having passed through the whole body; just from this, their scarce effectiveness derives like their side-effects.

It’s a long and not sure therapy, a sort of match between who dies before, the cancer or the patient, killed by the anti-cancer drug.

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