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What is Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma? How to manage it? What are the precautions to be taken? What are the signs and symptoms? What is the cause of this disease? How to treat it? How can homeopathy help you? All of this answered, in this post and of course our doctors always there to help you. Just fill in your details in the form down below and we will answer all your questions for FREE!

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What follicular thyroid carcinoma is?

Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is a well-differentiated tumor.

Which age group is more affected due to Follicular thyroid carcinoma?

• Incidence is higher in women than men.

• Thyroid carcinoma is common in all age groups, with an age range of 15-84 years.

What causes Follicular thyroid carcinoma?

• Exposure to ionizing radiation.

• Iodine deficiency.

• Mutations of the ras oncogene.

What are the sign and symptoms of Follicular thyroid carcinoma?

• Thyroid mass or nodule in the neck.

• Persistent cough.

• Difficulty breathing.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Pain.

• Stridor.

• Vocal cord paralysis.

• Hemoptysis

How to investigate Follicular thyroid carcinoma?

Complete assessment of thyroid function:

Levels above the reference range of T4, T3 and TSH may indicate thyroid cancer.

• TSH suppression test

• PCR Technique

• USG

• Fine needle aspiration biopsy

• Fiber-optic laryngoscopy

How to treat Follicular thyroid carcinoma?

• Surgery.

• Thyroid replacement therapy.

• External beam radiation therapy.

• Chemotherapy with cisplatin or doxorubicin has limited efficacy

What is the differential diagnosis of Follicular thyroid carcinoma?

• Goiter

• Goiter, Toxic Nodular

• Graves’ Disease

• Hurtle Cell Carcinoma

• Thyroid Nodule

• Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

• Medullary thyroid carcinoma

• Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

For more information, you can visit NCBI and eMedicine.