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Thyroid Cancer Is on the Rise
Len Rome’s Local Health
Youngstown

Doctors will have diagnosed 24,000 Americans with thyroid cancer this year, with Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court William Rehnquist among them.

It has very few symptoms.

Ellen Yingst has endured 20 years of therapy for thyroid cancer that spread to a lung. She took an arthritis pill as part of an Ohio study.

What was her reaction?

“Shocked, I really was, because how could an arthritis pill supposedly help a cancer tumor in the lung?” said Yingst.

But it did help shrink Yingst’s tumor. Other patients didn’t do as well.

Women are three times more likely than men to develop thyroid cancer and we don’t know why.

“You’re also more at risk if you have some thyroid problem. You can be more at risk slightly than someone who does not have thyroid problems, so generally those people are seen by endocrinologists," said Amy Davidson, a Forum Health cancer nurse.

Here’s how to do a “neck check” self exam: while swallowing water, watch in a mirror or feel for a lump between your Adam’s apple and your collar bone.

By doing this once a year you should catch any developing tumors.

We’ll see a dozen new studies on thyroid cancer next year and in the meantime, a self exam won’t hurt.

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