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Thyroid Cancer Awareness

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We are a group of teenage Thyroid Cancer Survivors from Trenton, OH. In 2004, Bryce and Lauren were diagnosed with papillary carcinoma. At the time these two 8th graders, who never spoke to each other before that, discovered they both had similar scars on their necks and began talking about their surgeries. Imagine the shock when our moms talked and learned that 2 kids in the same school had thyroid cancer.
A few months later, and after rumors of yet another child with thyroid cancer, we learned that Amber was also recently diagnosed with the same disease. Three kids in a small town, living a mile apart from each, diagnosed with the same type of thyroid cancer within months of each other. What are the odds?
Fate brought us together, and faith is keeping us strong.
To read more about our stories and to learn more about Thyroid Cancer, please visit www.thykidz.com.


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• In the United States from 1975 to 2000, thyroid cancer accounted for about 10% of all malignancies diagnosed in individuals 15 to 29 years of age and was the 4th most common cancer in this age group.
• Nearly 2,400 individuals 15 to 29 years of age were diagnosed with a malignant thyroid neoplasm in the U.S. during the year 2000.
• Thyroid cancer, as a percentage of all cancer, peaked between 20 and 24 years of age, and represented more than 11% of malignancies in this age group.
• The incidence of thyroid cancer increased rapidly between 15 and 29 years of age, and reached a plateau by the 5th to 6th decades.
• Differentiated thyroid cancer (papillary and follicular carcinoma – PTC and FTC) accounted for the vast majority of cases occurring before 30 years of age, and medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) accounted for most of the rest.
• More than 80% of the cases of thyroid cancer occurred in females.
• Between 1975 and 2000 the incidence of thyroid cancer increased steadily, at a statistically significant rate. Most of the increase occurred during the 1990s.
• The increase in incidence occurred in localized and regional—but not distant—presentations of disease.

Mortality

• The mortality rate of thyroid cancer increased above age 10, and continued to rise as a function of age.
• Thyroid cancer has been one of the most curable malignancies, with 5-year survival rates exceeding 99% in 15 to 29 year-olds. This holds true even in patients with disseminated disease at diagnosis.
• Patients with MTC have not fared as well as those with PTC and FTC.
• Although the survival difference between males and females was small, males had a consistently lower survival rate than females.

Risk Factors

• Appreciating the major histologic distinction between PTC and MTC is fundamental to understanding the differences in the biologic behavior and treatment applicable to these very different thyroid cancers.
• The major established environmental risk factor for the development of malignant thyroid neoplasms, particularly PTC, is ionizing radiation. This can result from exposure to both external beam radiotherapy and internal radiation as delivered by the ingestion of radioiodine.
• The RET proto-oncogene is implicated i proto-oncogene is implicated in the development of PTC.
• Most young individuals diagnosed with MTC have one of three hereditary cancer syndromes: familial MTC, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A, or multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B.
• MTC in the context of a familial syndrome is caused by germline mutations in the RET proto-oncogene.
•Sporadic MTC is rare in the adolescent and young adult population.

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