Informative Speech On Thyroid Cancer

Do you know any background knowledge of the thyroid or a condition relating named thyroid cancer? If not, I don’t either so I decided to pick this condition to learn new information about it. The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located in the front of the neck just below the thyroid cartilage. It has two side lobes connected to the bridge in the middle and is rich with blood vessels. The thyroid plays a huge role in our body influencing the function of many of our body’s important organs like our heart, liver, brain, kidney, and our skin. The thyroid makes hormones that make our body work normally. Your thyroid gland manufactures thyroid hormone to your cells to function at a certain rate. The thyroid glands uses iodine, from diet in food such as salt and seafood, to produce thyroid hormones. These hormones help to regulate the body’s
Thyroid cancer is a painless lump in this area of the thyroid located in the lower front of the neck. It is a disease that you develop when abnormal cells begin to grow in your thyroid gland. There are four main types of this condition, thyroid cancer. The four main types are papillary, follicular, medullary and anaplastic thyroid cancer. The most common type of thyroid cancer is papillary thyroid cancer which begins in follicular cells and grows very slow. If diagnosed early, most patients can be cured. The second most common is follicular thyroid cancer and also begins in follicular cells, grows slowly but can be treated successfully. Medullary thyroid cancer is not at all common, about 2 of every 100 people with this cancer has this type. It begins in C cells and stays on high levels and it can spread to other parts of body. The least common is anaplastic thyroid cancer and about 1 of every 100 people have this type of cancer. Most of these people are older than age 60 and these cells tend to grow quickly. This last type of thyroid cancer is very hard to