If you're like most primary care clinicians, your email inbox is flooded with messages from patients with questions about lab results. A common query: Should I be worried about an abnormal value on a ...

Normal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels generally fall between 0.5 and 5.0 milliunits per liter (mU/L). If your TSH level is higher than 5.0 mU/L it suggests an underactive thyroid, or ...

Earlier this fall, Medscape Medical News spoke to endocrinologists Angela M. Leung, MD, and Karen Tsai, MD, on how to interpret abnormal results of thyroid hormone tests. To address some additional ...

Important facts to keep in mind. re than 30 million Americans have a thyroid disorder and an excess of 60,000 Americans are affected by thyroid cancer annually. — -- intro: You probably don't ...

Papillary thyroid cancer is more common than medullary thyroid cancer and tends to be easier to treat. However, both types of thyroid cancer have a good prognosis in the early stages. If the cancer ...

Papillary thyroid cancer staging depends on age, with stage 2 involving distant spread in younger patients and larger tumors or regional spread in older patients. Diagnosis involves physical exams, ...