Thyroid cancer is relatively rare.
Frequent Symptoms
Many people who have thyroid cancer do not have symptoms.
Brain Metastasis
Even rarer, thyroid cancer may spread tothe brain.
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Symptoms of brain metastasis vary according to where the metastatic lesion(s) are located in the brain.
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This makes it the thirteenth most common cancer.
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There are also several gene mutations that can contribute to developing thyroid cancer.
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