It is possible to be fine within five years after metastatic lymphatic surgery for thyroid cancer.
The most common way of metastasis of thyroid cancer is lymph nodes. According to the size of the tumor, the situation and number of lymph node metastasis, and whether there is distant metastasis to assess the early and advanced stage of thyroid cancer, and then decide on the surgical method and postoperative related treatment.
After surgery, further treatment with iodine 131, chemotherapy (cisplatin, 5-FU, etc.) and targeted drugs is usually carried out, and the risk of recurrence is assessed regularly. Thyroid cancer, even with lymph node metastasis, has a high 5-year survival rate after surgery due to the low malignancy of most thyroid cancers.
Some reports show that the treatment effect of medullary thyroid cancer with higher malignancy is worse than that of papillary cancer and follicular cancer, which usually has relatively high recurrence and metastasis risk, and the general ten-year survival rate varies from 50% to 70%; whereas, papillary thyroid cancer with lower malignancy, the ten-year survival rate of the patient can be as high as more than 90% after active treatment.
Therefore, once thyroid cancer is diagnosed, it should be treated actively.