What is Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma?
Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is the most aggressive thyroid gland cancer.
Anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid (ATC) generally occurs in iodine-deficient areas or in people having pre-existing goitre, follicular thyroid cancer, papillary thyroid cancer).
Commonly found in?
Females are more susceptible as compared to men and the ratio is 3:1.
What are the causes of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma?
Anaplastic carcinoma of thyroid is believed to occur in previously undetected long-standing thyroid carcinoma e.g. papillary, follicular.
What are the signs and symptoms of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma?
-Rapidly growing neck mass.
-Bone pain
-Weakness
-Cough
-Dyspnea
-Swollen lymph nodes in the neck
-Difficulty swallowing.
-Coughing up blood.
Is anaplastic thyroid cancer curable?
Anaplastic thyroid cancer has a very low survival rate even after the treatment.
Where does anaplastic thyroid cancer spread?
Follicular thyroid cancer spreads to lymph nodes in the neck and then to distant organs mainly lungs and bones.
How to diagnose anaplastic thyroid carcinoma?
-Serum calcium levels detected to rule out medullary or parathyroid carcinomas.
-Chest radiography.
-Preoperative cervical ultrasonography.
Cervical CT scanning.
-Bone scanning.
-Positron emission tomography.
-Fine needle aspiration cytology.
What are the complications of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma?
-Spread of tumor within the neck.
-Metastasis of cancer to other parts of body.
What is the homeopathic treatment for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma?
-Calcarea iodata
