Treatment

There are things you can do to help you feel more in control of your physical and mental health when preparing for treatment. In the hospital, preparing for treatment is also called prehabilitation or prehab.

The main treatment for thyroid cancer is surgery. Depending on your situation, you might also have radiotherapy and sometimes targeted drugs or chemotherapy.

Find out about the types of surgery, what happens before surgery and how you might feel after your operation.

You might have radiotherapy to kill the cancer, stop cancer that's spread or treat cancer that's come back. Find out about radioactive iodine treatment and external radiotherapy.

Targeted cancer drugs target those differences that help a cancer to grow and survive. You might have these drugs for differentiated or medullary thyroid cancer.

Chemotherapy may be used to treat anaplastic thyroid cancer. Find out about how you have chemotherapy and the possible side effects.

Doctors will arrange for you to have tests and scans at regular follow up appointments.

Find out about the latest UK research looking at thyroid cancer.