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 25 to 65 years of age when first diagnosed, and the disease is more common in women than men.

According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute there were an estimated 37,200 new cases of thyroid cancer in the U.S. in 2009 and an estimated 1,630 deaths from the disease.

VBL Therapeutics plans to begin clinical trials in thyroid cancer beginning in the second half of 2010, and this site will be updated accordingly.

For information about current clinical trials of other treatments of thyroid cancer, please visit www.clinicaltrials.gov.

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