For patients under 55 years old: Papillary thyroid cancer is classified as stage 2 if the cancer has spread to distant parts of the body, such as the lungs or bones. This is rare for initial ...

Medically reviewed by Kelly Wood, MD Key Takeaways A TPO antibody test helps diagnose autoimmune thyroid diseases like Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.A positive test result means antibodies are present and ...

More than 12% of Americans will develop a thyroid condition at some point, with women at greater risk than men. The thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped organ in the front of your neck, produces hormones ...

Around 12% of the United States population will develop some type of thyroid condition in their lifetime. An estimated 20 million Americans are living with some form of thyroid disease. This is an ...

What does your thyroid do? Your thyroid gland influences almost all of the metabolic processes in your body through the hormones it produces. Your thyroid gland is part of your endocrine system. When ...

Doctors may recommend a biopsy to obtain a sample from a thyroid nodule. Testing the sample in a laboratory can help indicate whether the nodule is cancerous or benign. Though most tend to be benign, ...

“Thyroid belly,” the abdominal weight gain that’s thought to go hand-in-hand with low thyroid conditions, has gained a lot of attention on social media recently. But the truth about the condition—and ...

Armour Thyroid (desiccated thyroid) is a prescription drug that’s used to treat hypothyroidism or to decrease thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels in certain people. Armour Thyroid comes as an ...

Thyroid cancer surgery involves removing part or all of the thyroid gland to treat cancerous growths. It is the primary treatment for most thyroid cancers. Thyroid cancer develops when cells in the ...

Thyroid eye disease (TED), also known as Graves’ eye disease, usually stems from an autoimmune condition that starts when immune cells attack the thyroid gland, a tiny butterfly-shaped gland at the ...