Distant spread of papillary thyroid cancer is called metastasis. The presence of lymph node metastasis in the neck area typically has a more frequent recurrence rate but not a higher mortality rate. Cervical metastasis (spread to lymph nodes in the neck) are present in 50% of small papillary carcinomas and in more than 75% of the larger papillary thyroid carcinomas. This type of cancer has a high cure rate-10-year survival rates for all patients with papillary thyroid cancer estimated at over 90%. Papillary carcinoma typically arises as a solid, irregular or cystic mass that comes from otherwise normal thyroid tissue. However, the most common symptom is a mass in the neck. Most commonly, papillary thyroid cancers are totally asymptomatic. About 80% of all thyroid cancers cases are papillary thyroid cancer. Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common thyroid cancer.
You can read a general overview of thyroid cancer in our article What Is Thyroid Cancer?
This article will focus on papillary thyroid cancer basics, including papillary thyroid cancer symptoms, treatments, and prognosis. You may have even heard your doctor talk about metastatic papillary thyroid cancer ("metastatic" means that it has spread beyond your thyroid gland). Papillary thyroid cancer (also sometimes called papillary thyroid carcinoma) is the most common type of thyroid cancer.
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