Parathyroid Cancer
Head and Neck Program
Recurrent Parathyroid Cancer
In about half of patients who have surgery for parathyroidcancer, the disease recurs (comes back), usually within 2 to 5 years. Because parathyroid cancer tends to be slow-growing, repeated surgeries to remove cancer which has come back can lower the level of parathyroid hormone and extend survival.
Treatment may be one of the following:
Surgery to remove the cancer which has come back in the area of the thyroid or in other parts of the body.
Medicine to reduce the amount of calcium in the blood.
Surgery followed by radiation therapy.
Radiation therapy.
Chemotherapy.