1FICMS Assist Professor, University of Al-Qadisiyah/College of Medicine/Department of Surgery
2MB. Ch. B, University of Al-Qadisiyah/College of Medicine/Department of Family Medicine/Iraq
*Corresponding Author: Huda Ghazi Habban Email: huda.g.habban@gmail.com
Online published on 7 December, 2018.
The thyroid cancer is the most frequent cancer of the endocrine system, and it is rapidly increasing in incidence. It occur more often in people who live in areas with excessive exposure to radiation and excessive use of x-ray which can be considered as an important risk factors. thus the aim of present study is to evaluate the prevalence and possible risk factors of thyroid cancer among patients with goiter that are referred to Al-Diwaniyah teaching hospital.
About 74 patients (19 male, 55 female) with goiter have been selected (33 solitary nodule, 41 MNG), with ages of more than 5 years. We evaluate them by history, examination and investigations, reporting presence or absence of cancer, and also the. History includes the most important questionnaires (family history, exposure to radiation especially x-ray).
The most frequent ages presented with goiter are between 45–60 year, female represented 74.3% of patients, with 55.4% of patients presented with MNG and 44.6% presented with solitary nodule. Family history of goiter was positive in 24.4% and negative in 75.6% of patients. History of x-ray exposure were positive in 59.4% and negative in 40.6% of patients. histological results reveal that the papillary cancer represent 14.8% and the follicular cancer represent 6.7% of all patients with goiter.
The positive family history and the history of x-ray exposure are important risk factors.
Thyroid cancer, Goiter, X-ray
