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Dr. Eric Genden: "How To Safeguard The Health Of Your Thyroid"

  • New York Daily News
  • (January 09, 2013)

As the chairman of the Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Department at Mount Sinai, Dr. Eric Genden is a head and neck surgeon who sees patients for problems including cancer of the thyroid and benign disease of the parathyroid. "Thyroid cancer is a disease that can spread to the local lymph nodes or, in more extreme cases, the lungs, liver or bones," says Dr. Genden. "We don't yet know what causes thyroid cancer nor do we have answers for its dramatic increase, but thankfully, 85 percent of the cases are papillary thyroid cancer, one of the most curable human cancers." Learn more