Anaplastic thyroid cancer

Anaplastic thyroid cancer is rare (1-5% of thyroid cancers). It usually affects people over 60-70 years of age. This type of tumor is characterized by rapid growth of the tumor node, invasion of the environment and mechanical syndrome (from oppression). It creates early distant metastases ( nodes, lungs , liver , CNS ).

Therapy

 * Radical surgery (total thyroidectomy),
 * palliation - cytostatics + external irradiation.
 * often only symptomatic treatment.

Prognosis

 * Unfavorable, median survival 5 months.

Related articles

 * Thyroid tumors
 * Differentiated thyroid cancer
 * Medullary thyroid carcinoma

Reference

 * 1) KEUTGEN, Xavier M, Samira M SADOWSKI and Electron KEBEBEW. Management of anaplastic thyroid cancer. Gland Surg [online] . 2015, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 44-51, also available from < https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321056/?tool=pubmed >. ISSN 2227-684X.