Did you know that September is Thyroid Cancer Awareness month?
According to the ThyCa.org, it started in 2000 as Thyroid Cancer Week. In 2003, it became Thyroid Cancer Month. It promotes awareness for early detection, care/treatment, and research for all forms of thyroid cancer.
Thyroid cancer is one of the fasting growing cancers in the US. Last year, I was just one of roughly 40,000 people that were estimated to be diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2010; this year, that number is expected to increase, which has happened in recent years. Unfortunately, thyroid cancer is often labeled by our doctors and surgeons as 'the good cancer' because the 5-year survival statistics are better than those for breast and lung cancers. All I can say is there is nothing good about having to take replacement thyroid hormone for the rest of you life after having to go through surgery and in some cases a round of radiation. Nothing. Despite how slow growing this form of cancer is, people still die from it every year. Nothing good there either.
If you would like to learn more about Thyroid Cancer, please take a look at the following links:
* ThyCa.org
* About.com Thyroid Disease
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