Raising Awareness of Medullary Thyroid Cancer

by Bill McClain, as told to Jo Cavallo

In The ASCO Post, the online newsletter of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 

Because medullary thyroid carcinoma is so rare, many physicians are not familiar with this sometimes-fatal subtype and misdiagnose it or lump it together with more curable types of thyroid cancer. 

I’m used to having bumps and cysts pop up on my body, so when I felt a lump on the front of my throat, just below my Adam’s apple, I brushed it off.

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Because medullary thyroid carcinoma is so rare, many physicians are not familiar with this sometimes-fatal subtype and misdiagnose it or lump it together with more curable types of thyroid cancer.