Nowadays, many people will be found to have a nodule on their thyroid gland during medical checkups. The first thing that comes to mind is whether it will become cancerous. Thyroid experts point out that thyroid nodules are very common in the population, especially among women. However, most of these nodules are benign, and only a very small number of them are cancerous. Therefore, when you find a nodule on the thyroid gland by hand or during a physical examination, you should not be afraid, nor should you let it go, but the key is to identify whether it is benign or malignant, and to do regular review. The thyroid nodules prefer women At present, thyroid nodules are becoming more and more common every year. The term “thyroid nodules” has become a buzzword in medical checkups. Every time a team in a hospital’s medical checkup center, there are always several thyroid nodules detected. And the vast majority of patients are women. 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Nowadays, thyroid ultrasonography is generally used to detect very small thyroid nodules immediately. In clinical practice, women are more health conscious and participate in medical checkups than men, so they include thyroid ultrasound in their checkups, and smaller thyroid nodules are detected. The majority of thyroid nodules have no obvious symptoms, so most people are detected during physical exams, doctor’s palpation or ultrasound exams. They may be discovered by accidental washing or unintentional touching, or during a CT or MRI examination of the neck for cervical spine disease. Only when the nodule is very large and compresses the surrounding tissues do the corresponding symptoms, such as hoarseness, breath-holding, and difficulty swallowing, appear. Is the size of a thyroid nodule related to its nature? Xu Bo, chief physician of nail and breast surgery of Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, said that generally speaking, the size of thyroid nodules is not related to their nature, but clinically, multiple, disseminated nodules with small diameter are mostly benign, while single, large diameter, calcified nodules with abundant blood flow and enlarged lymph nodes have a higher incidence of thyroid cancer, with a cancer rate of 10%-20%. Currently, the industry lacks a gold standard for the diagnosis of thyroid cancer, and doctors can only rely on experience to determine whether there is a possibility of cancer. ”According to statistics, during the 10 years from 1998 to 2008, about 5 percent of thyroid nodule patients in the city’s first hospital were malignant.” Xu Bo said, “Of course, as the total number of patients increases, the proportion of malignant will also be higher.” The majority of benign thyroid nodules do not require surgery, according to doctors. Generally speaking, nodules under 1 cm and without calcification can be reviewed every 3-6 months at the hospital, Xu Bo said. During the review, look for significant growth of the nodule (“significant growth” means that the nodule has increased in size by more than 50%), and pay special attention to whether there are signs and symptoms that suggest nodule malignancy (such as hoarseness, difficulty in breathing/swallowing, nodule fixation, enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, etc.), or calcification, etc. However, some patients are psychologically stressed and always worry about cancer, so they request surgery with the idea of “it is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to spare one”. In the past, we often see women with a “suicide” like scar on the neck, not wearing high-necked clothes, can be identified at a glance, quite affecting the aesthetics. Xu Bo said, now this open surgery is not much, in order to improve the aesthetic, in the surgical approach, one is from the armpit, one is from the mouth under the tongue. Although the appearance does not look too obvious scars, even the body surface without scars, but under the body surface, the path of surgery is still long, so it can not be said to be minimally invasive, but only to meet the requirements of most people aesthetic. How to prevent long nodules in the thyroid gland in life? 1. Avoid insufficient or excessive iodine intake. The thyroid gland is sensitive to iodine, and the thyroid gland has the functions of iodine uptake, concentration, synthesis, reserve and secretion. In daily life, the iodine content in seafood should also be noted. 2. The iodine content of sea fish is 163-3180μg/kg, with an average of 832μg/kg; the iodine content of shrimp and shellfish is 308-1300μg/kg, with an average of 798μg/kg; dried seaweed is 362400μg/kg, nori is 43230μg/kg; therefore, the intake of seafood should not be too high. -100 grams is appropriate. 3, avoid tension, anxiety, sadness, insomnia. The need for thyroxine in these cases will be greatly increased, and if the load is exceeded, the thyroid gland will be prone to lesions. 4. The need for thyroxine also increases during pregnancy. During pregnancy, the thyroid gland and the levels of thyroid hormones it produces change, and thyroid disorders such as hypothyroidism may occur. It is recommended that thyroid function be checked at least once when pregnancy is confirmed.