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how we produce our information| Surgery| is usually the first
treatment for thyroid cancer. If the cancer is detected and
removed early, most people have a very good chance of being
cured. Your surgeon will explain the type of surgery that you
need. If the cancer has spread beyond the thyroid gland, surgery
alone may not cure the cancer and you’ll often need a
combination of treatments. Your surgeon may still recommend that
the thyroid gland is removed as this can help to control
symptoms. It isn’t always possible for the doctors to make a
diagnosis of cancer before surgery. In this situation, the
surgeon will remove the affected lobe of the thyroid gland so
that it can be examined under a microscope. If the diagnosis of
cancer is confirmed, the remaining lobe will often be removed as
well during a second operation. This means that treatment with
radioactive iodine is then possible. Most people have all of the
thyroid gland removed (total thyroide