Dr. Mike Yao: "Thyroid Cancer is Common but Mostly Curable, According to Expert Marking a Month of Awareness"
Mike Yao, MD, is senior faculty in otolaryngology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and has spent the past 15 years treating patients for thyroid cancer, parathyroid disease and other cancers of the head and neck. September is Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month. Thyroid cancer is the most rapidly increasing cancer diagnosis in the U.S. Doctors estimate that more than 47,000 women and 15,000 men will receive this diagnosis in 2015. “Thyroid cancer is an umbrella term we use for the many types of cancer that arise in the thyroid,” Yao says. “In most cases, we don't know what causes thyroid cancer, but we can usually cure it.” The cure rate for thyroid cancer hovers around 97-98 percent. Learn more