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Review
. 2022 Jun 19;14(12):3017.
doi: 10.3390/cancers14123017.

Metastases to the Thyroid Gland: What Can We Do?

Qiushi Tang  1 , Zhihong Wang  2
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Review

Metastases to the Thyroid Gland: What Can We Do?

Qiushi Tang et al. Cancers (Basel). .

Abstract

Metastases to the thyroid gland arise from other malignant tumors such as renal cell carcinoma, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, and breast cancer. In clinical practice, the incidence is low, and the symptoms are not specific, so it is often missed and misdiagnosed. It is finally diagnosed via the comprehensive application of many diagnostic methods, such as ultrasound, fine-needle aspiration biopsy, and immunohistochemistry analysis. Surgery-based comprehensive treatment is often adopted, but because it is usually in the late stage of the primary tumor, the prognosis is poor. In order to better understand the related characteristics of thyroid metastatic cancer and then improve the clinical diagnosis and treatment and the prognosis of patients, in this paper, we systematically summarize the research status of thyroid metastatic cancer.

Keywords: cancer metastasis; diagnosis; thyroid neoplasms; treatment.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that no conflict of interest exist regarding the publication of this study.

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Frequency of metastasis of related malignant tumors to the thyroid gland.
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