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News, Reviews, and Articles on Thyroid Nodules
The Road to Wellness Is Starting at the Office Dec 6, 2006
Ms. Metzger, a Cadmus Communications accounts manager, says a screening revealed she had swollen thyroid nodules, one of which turned out to be cancerous. "If I had gone to my doctor, I could not have gotten that test because I didn't have any symptoms," says the Ephrata, Pa. (Yahoo News -- Health Care)
Hospitals move to cut dangerous lab errors Jun 15, 2006
Likewise, in patients with thyroid nodules, 300,000 fine needle aspirations -- in which a doctor inserts a tiny needle into a growth to extract cells -- are done annually in the U.S. to rule out cancer, but 25 percent of the time the tests miss tumor cells and produce false negatives, studies show. In January 2005, UPMC began posting a pathologist at the bedside of patients undergoing a needle biopsy to evaluate the quality of samples. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Prevalence of thyroid nodules in an occupationally radiation exposed group: a cross sectional study in an area with mild iodine deficiency Jul 7, 2005
Thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer occur more frequently in people exposed to radiation for therapeutic purposes, and to nuclear fallout. Furthermore, it is known that a moderate degree of iodine deficiency may be responsible for an increased prevalence of thyroid nodules, while it is suspected that radiation exposure could induce changes in thyroid autoimmunity ... This study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of thyroid nodules in a population occupationally exposed to radiation, in an... (BioMed Central)
The Multiplicity of Thyroid Nodules and Carcinomas Jun 9, 2005
About 5 percent of adults in the United States have palpable thyroid nodules. Most of these nodules are at least 2 cm in their longest dimension, and their frequency doesn't change much with age. (New England Journal of Medicine)
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