Diagnostic Generalities of Thyroid Cancer
María de Jesus George Bell, Josefa Bell Castillo, Wilberto George Carrion
Scientific-technical advances have made it possible to specify that thyroid cancer is the most common
malignancy of the endocrine system, with more annual deaths compared to other cancers of endocrine
origin combined; despite the low mortality rate. Thyroid Cancer is a malignant tumor or growth caused
by the abnormal and uncontrolled development of cells that invade and destroy thyroid tissue, currently
being the most frequent endocrine neoplasm. A bibliographic review of the selected topic was carried out,
at the same time the Infomed platform was considered on its Scielo consultation site of Cuban and foreign
authors, in addition to the Internet, the consultation library of the Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso General
Hospital. A total of 36 bibliographic from various authors were analyzed; which allowed the analysis and
discussion of the results obtained, in a comparative manner according to the sections. We proceeded to
assess and give an opinion about this disease, taking into account an ethical and professional framework.
It is concluded that it is important to know the clinical and diagnostic generalities of thyroid cancer in the
current context because health professionals must appropriate the clinical and epidemiological method to
know the classification of this disease, the type of cancer, the anatomopathological variety, the presence
or absence of metastases, which reveals the need to indicate, perform and interpret complementary tests,
depending on the scientific and technical availability of each laboratory. This aspect is widely debated
by multidisciplinary groups that deal with thyroid cancer, an alert is being carried out worldwide to work
on the risk factors of this neoplasm to reduce incidence, prevalence and mortality.
