Voice problems common after thyroid cancer surgery

More than a quarter of patients have voice changes that persist for more than three months
Reuters Health
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Patient-reported voice problems are common after thyroid cancer surgery and should be discussed preoperatively and considered in postoperative rehabilitation, researchers say.

US researchers surveyed patients in 2017-18 who had undergone surgery for differentiated thyroid cancer up to four years earlier to determine factors associated with abnormal voice.