Question 28 (part 2) · LEK · Thyroid cancer
Which of the following statements is false about thyroid cancers?
- A. iodine deficiency leading to goitre promotes the occurrence of papillary thyroid cancer.
- B. increased calcitonin in the blood might be a marker of medullary thyroid cancer.
- C. every thyroid tumour, regardless of the size, which is diagnosed as malignant tumour or suspected to be cancerous is an indication for surgery.
- D. anaplastic thyroid cancer is the most malignant one of all thyroid cancers.
- E. during surgical treatment of thyroid cancer all lymph nodes located in its vicinity (ones from the central anterior compartment – level VI) should be removed.
Hint
Iodine status shifts the ratio of differentiated thyroid cancer subtypes — which type predominates in endemic goitre areas?
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