What happens to papillary thyroid cancer without surgery?

If papillary thyroid cancer is not operated, it will lead to aggravation of local symptoms, uncontrolled development of cancer cells, dyspnea when the mass presses on the airway, hoarseness when it infringes on the recurrent laryngeal nerve, and systemic metastasis in the advanced stage, invading the normal organs and endangering the life. Papillary thyroid cancer is a less malignant type of thyroid cancer. With better prognosis, early surgical treatment can achieve better therapeutic effect and the survival rate will not be affected too much. However, if the treatment is not active and timely, there will be uncontrolled growth of tumor cells, leading to aggravation of local symptoms, the tumor is getting bigger and bigger, compressing the airway and esophagus, resulting in different degrees of dysphagia and respiratory difficulties, and papillary carcinoma can also be metastasized throughout the body through lymph nodes, resulting in multi-organ damage and endangering life. Thyroid cancer belongs to malignant tumors, which need to be detected and treated early to avoid metastasis, and after metastasis, it basically belongs to the late stage, at this time, the treatment effect is not obvious, and the prognosis is also very poor. Therefore, it is recommended that once diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer, patients should actively cooperate with the treatment to improve the prognosis.