Thyroid Cancer
Chemotherapy is a rare treatment option to successfully cure thyroid cancer. Almost 97% of the thyroid cancer patients suffer from either follicular or papillary carcinomas, which are normally curable by using radioactive iodine treatment. The remaining 3% thyroid cancer cases are anaplastic or medullary carcinomas, which are quite harder to treat. Chemotherapy is a treatment option for medullary carcinoma cases which keep on coming back even after doing the standard surgical treatment of total thyroid removal. In case of anaplastic carcinomas which are often extensive at the time of diagnosis require more frequent options like a radiation therapy or chemotherapy. After receiving chemotherapy, the survival rate for a patient with thyroid cancer rises to 98%. While in the case of stage 3 thyroid cancer patients, survival rate is almost 100% and 71% for patients with stage 4 thyroid cancer.