How many years can you live for thyroid cancer, and how long can you survive?

Thyroid cancer is a common endocrine tumor in clinical practice, and the specific survival time of thyroid cancer is related to the pathological type, treatment effect, personal constitution, and whether there are other complications of thyroid cancer, so it cannot be generalized. Overall, the 5-year survival rate for early-stage thyroid cancer is higher, usually more than 90%, while the 5-year survival rate for early-stage thyroid cancer decreases accordingly.

1. Pathological types: Common thyroid cancers include papillary thyroid carcinoma, follicular thyroid carcinoma, medullary thyroid carcinoma and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma. In general, patients with papillary thyroid cancer and follicular thyroid carcinoma have a better prognosis and a normal life expectancy if surgery is performed early in the disease. For patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, the prognosis is usually worse and the survival time is shorter;

2. Treatment effect: Patients with early-stage thyroid cancer, especially those with small lesions and no metastasis, will generally not affect their normal life expectancy through timely surgical resection. For patients with advanced thyroid cancer, the life span is relatively short due to the poor effect of surgical treatment, tumor spread and metastasis may occur;

3. Personal physique: If the patient's physique is good and the body's immune system function is strong, the cancer cells may be confined to the local area, and the metastasis and invasion have not yet occurred, and the survival time of such patients will be prolonged accordingly. On the contrary, if the patient's constitution is poor and the immune system is weak, it is easy to spread and metastasize the tumor, and the survival time will be shortened accordingly.

4. Whether there are complications: If thyroid cancer is detected at an early stage and surgical resection and lymph node dissection are carried out in time, it will generally not affect the life expectancy. However, if thyroid cancer is found in the middle and advanced stages, and distant metastases have appeared, surgical resection may not have a good effect on the disease, and the survival time will be shortened accordingly.