The Complete Guide to Thyroid Cancer: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention

Thyroid cancer is a relatively rare but increasingly recognized disease that affects the thyroid gland, a small butterfly-shaped organ at the base of your neck. Although it is one of the less common types of cancer, its incidence has been rising over the past few decades. This growth in diagnosis has largely been attributed to advances in imaging technology, which can detect even small and asymptomatic tumors that might have previously gone unnoticed. Despite this, thyroid cancer is often c...