| Problems concerning the thyroid gland can be often | | | | vital to the neck. Another reason for their removal is |
| found in people, some of which are extremely | | | | an esthetic one.Goiters can also be found in the chest, |
| common. The thyroid is one of the gland that can | | | | where they can cause as much trouble as in the |
| cause a lot of vital problems, but most of them have | | | | thyroid gland. |
| tretment.The problems can be categorized into the | | | | Another common problem found in the thyroid can be |
| following: concerning the growth of this gland which | | | | the solitary nodules. They can cause a threat if they |
| can cause compression of the neck, those about the | | | | are malign, but as it has been found more than half of |
| production of too much or too little hormones, | | | | the population have nodules and most of them are |
| concerning the presence of lumps or nodule | | | | benign. All one has to do is do a biopsy to find out. But |
| formations which can relate to thyroid cancerand of | | | | there is always risk in doing this procedure or using |
| course the problems concerning cancer. These are all | | | | radiation, because the thyroid is a very sensitive |
| very different problems of the same gland.Here are | | | | gland.when the thyroide gland produces more hormone |
| some of the problems that one person can have with | | | | than necessary, that may as well be a problem. |
| the thyroid. | | | | Treatments consist in giving radioactive iodine, drugs or |
| As everybody knows cancer can be found in our | | | | even surgery, but this is the least used treatment. But |
| body at almost any organ or gland and the thyroid | | | | besides producing more hormone, the thyroid gland |
| makes no exception. The thyroid cancer is quite | | | | can produce less, and so another problem occurs. This |
| common, but most of the people affected by this | | | | is very hard to notice and many years may pass until |
| have succeeded in living many years, unlike other | | | | one can descover this problem. |
| types of cancer. There is also the matter of the | | | | One of the last most common problems is the |
| thyroid enlargement, also known as goiters. These | | | | process of the inflammation in the thyroid gland, called |
| huge lumps can be removed and it is best that the | | | | thyroiditis. This can have several symptoms like pain or |
| patient do so for this compress structures that are | | | | fever and many more, all of them quite common. |