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Thyroid Cancer and Depression 0
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The thyroid gland that is located in the neck is responsible for the production of hormones. When the gland stops producing the required amount of hormones, the body’s functions slow down with depressionbeing one of the symptoms of a lack in adequate production of hormones.The thyroid gland is located in the neck just above the collarbone and is called the endocrine gland. The endocrine gland produces hormones that regulate the metabolism n the body. Endocrine glands make the hormones and secrete them into all the parts of the body through the bloodstream.
One’s metabolism affects the speed at which the body functions. Metabolism takes control of all the internal organs. When your thyroid slows down and thereby produces insufficient amount of hormones to control the metabolism, you undergo what is called hypothyroidism.
The symptoms of hypothyroidism can come and go with time. Most thyroid disorders are hereditary. Therefore, if your mother or aunt has had any thyroid disorder, you are likely to have it too.
Symptoms of Depression
There may be several signs of depression in people diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Some of the warning signs of depression in patients with thyroid cancer include:
- consistently feeling sad, hopeless, empty, worthless or helpless,
- thinking about suicide and death,
- not enjoying hobbies or activeness and
- significant changes in weight.
Patients with thyroid cancer may experience feelings of fatigue, difficulty in concentrating, wanting to sleep and feeling sluggish. The treatments may also cause depression, especially if you were an active person prior to going through the treatments that demand a lot of rest.
Treatment of Depression
If you want to stop being unhappy or feel that being sad is out of your control, make sure that you the health care team that is responsible for treating thyroid cancer is also responsible for taking care of emotional health. Here are other treatments for depression that you can administer yourself.
- Eat a healthy diet.
- Enrol in a support group to gain assistance from other thyroid cancer survivors and patients.
- Talk to friends and family about your condition. Seek emotional support from them.
- Understand that depression is a commonly experienced mental condition after having been diagnosed with cancer, but it can be treated.
Tips
Remind yourself to not sink into depression or let it affect you so much that you find it hard to battle thyroid cancer.
Fallopian tube cancer occurs when cells in the fallopian tubes multiply out of control and form a tumor.
The fallopian tubes are the passageways that connect the ovaries and the uterus.
As this tumor grows, it can eventually press against the inside of the fallopian tube, stretching the tube and causing pelvic pain. Over time, the tumor can eventually spread throughout the pelvis and abdomen.
Fallopian tube cancer is very rare. It accounts for less than 1% of all cancers of the female reproductive organs. Only 1,500 to 2,000 cases have been reported worldwide, primarily in postmenopausal women. It is more common for cancer to spread to a fallopian tube from elsewhere in the body (usually the ovary, breast or endometrium) than for a new cancer to develop in the fallopian tube.
Scientists don't know whether any environmental or lifestyle factors increase the risk of this cancer. Researchers are looking at the possibility that there might be some inherited (genetic) tendency to develop the illness. There is some evidence that women who inherit a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, a gene already linked to breast and ovarian cancer, seem to have an increased risk of developing fallopian tube cancer. Recent research has confirmed this. In one recent analysis of several hundred women who were carriers of the BRCA1 gene mutation, the incidence of fallopian tube cancer was increased more than 100-fold. Likewise, a substantial proportion of women with the diagnosis of fallopian tube cancer test positively for either the BRCA 1 or BRCA2 gene mutation. Recent recommendations suggest that any woman with a diagnosis of fallopian tube cancer be tested for the BRCA mutations.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and your medical history before examining you. Tests usually are needed because the more common symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath may come from many causes. These tests include an electrocardiogram (EKG), a chest or abdominal X-ray, depending on your symptoms and your physical exam. If these tests show any abnormalities of the lungs or pleura, you will need a computed tomography (CT) scan or a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. These imaging studies allow the physician to determine the size and location of any tumor in the chest or abdomen.
If you have fluid in your chest or abdomen, a thin needle may be used to remove a small sample of the fluid for examination. This procedure, called fine-needle aspiration, also may be used to drain the fluid to relieve symptoms such as chest pain and shortness of breath. Occasionally, mesothelioma can be diagnosed from this fluid sample alone, but usually a tissue sample (biopsy) will have to be taken, too. The tissue sample can be obtained with procedures called a thoracoscopy or video-assisted thoracoscopy (VAT) for a pleural tumor or with a procedure called laparoscopy for an abdominal tumor. In both procedures, a tubelike instrument inserted through a small incision allows the physician to see the tumor and collect a tissue sample. You also may need a procedure called a bronchoscopy or a mediastinoscopy so the doctor can look for masses in the lung airways caused by other tumors or can remove tissue samples from lymph nodes.
There are also some investigational blood tests that may be associated with mesothelioma and can be helpful both in the diagnosis and response to treatment. These are known as osteopontin and mesothelins and are available as part of some clinical studies.
Once your doctor is certain you have malignant mesothelioma, the next step is to determine how far the tumor has spread, which will classify the cancer into one of four stages. This is done with imaging studies, such as CT and MRI. In stage I, the tumor is limited to the pleural lining on one side of the chest without any signs of having spread. If the disease returns after being treated successfully, it is called recurrent mesothelioma.
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