Thyroid Cancer

The term “thyroid cancer” refers to four kinds of cancerous growths on the thyroid gland: papillary, follicular, medullary and anaplastic. Most thyroid cancer patients are between 20 and 55 years of age when first diagnosed, and the disease is more prevalent among women than men.

According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, there were an estimated 44,670 new cases of thyroid cancer in the U.S. in 2010 and an estimated 1,690 deaths from the disease.

VBL Therapeutics recently initiated a Phase 2a clinical trial in thyroid cancer.

For information about this trial or other current clinical trials for thyroid cancer treatments, please visit www.clinicaltrials.gov.

The American Cancer Society and the U.S. National Cancer Institute both offer useful information about thyroid cancer.