article_snippet: Thyroid tumours, which occur in a gland in the neck, are relatively rare and usually diagnosed by taking a blood sample and testing a blood sample hormone levels.
article_snippet: Thyroid tumours (artist's illustration right), which occur in a gland in the neck, are relatively rare and usually diagnosed by taking a blood sample and testing a blood sample hormone levels . '
article_snippet: Detecting and diagnosing thyroid cancer can be difficult, because thyroid cancer's often looking for a very small number of occurrences in a very large background of benign nodules,' said Dr Donald Bodenner at the University of Arkansas. '
article_snippet: Thyroid cancer is our template,' said Dr Ferrando. '
article_snippet: Thyroid cancer's one of the fastest growing cancers in terms of occurrences in the world. '
article_snippet: Thyroid cancer's not one of the highest mortality cancers, but one of the fastest growing in terms of newly diagnosed cases.'