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Finding An Expert Thyroid Surgeon

Thyroid cancer surgery is highly specialized as discussed in this video. There are very few surgeons who perform only thyroid surgery. Thyroid surgery is performed by general surgeons and Otolaryngology/Head and Neck (ENT) surgeons. However, like all surgery and medicine, thyroid surgery and thyroid cancer surgery has become very specialized. Complications, risks, and cancer cure rates are directly related to the experience of the surgeon. Most general surgeons perform breast surgery, hernias, gallbladders, and numerous intestinal/abdominal operations. The typical general surgeon performs less than one thyroid operation per month. The results of this 'lack of experience' shows in multiple publications, with lesser experienced surgeons having much higher complication rates including paralysis of the vocal cord nerves and permanent damage to the parathyroid glands. Equally as severe is the unacceptable incidence incompletely removed thyroid cancer and recurrent cancer among inexperienced surgeons. Unfortunately, at the Clayman Thyroid Cancer Center we operate on 2-3 patients every day who had a thyroid cancer operation performed by general surgeons or ENT surgeons and they are not cured. Many of them had a serious complication. You must choose your thyroid surgeon wisely! You should pick a surgeon that performs 100 or more thyroid cancer operations per year, otherwise your chance of a poor outcome or a serious complication is higher. And... if you see a surgeon that tells you he/she does 100 thyroid operations per year, do your homework! That is a minimum of two thyroid operations per week and very few surgeons do this much thyroid surgery. There is no question that the more thyroid operations a surgeon does, the less the complications and the better the cancer outcomes. We understand that we can't operate on every thyroid patient in the US... but please pick your surgeon wisely or you will have to come here for your second operation! If your doctor sent you to a surgeon who is not performing thyroid operations every week, without exception, then find a different surgeon. If you have to travel to another town to do so, then please do. Statistics don't lie, and experience is what really counts. Over 50% of our operations on patients with recurrent or persistent thyroid cancer had an inexperienced surgeon perform their thyroid cancer surgery and they still have cancer in their neck. IMPORTANT: Just because your surgeon says they perform thyroid surgery does not mean they are an expert. What you want is a HIGHLY EXPERIENCED SURGEON WHO DOES HIGH VOLUME. The surgeons who do the most are almost always the best. Here is the sad part--surgeons will exaggerate their numbers and claim they do more than they do. However, as of April 2014, the US Government has begun releasing their Medicare data for all doctors. Now you can look up in the database to see how many thyroid operations (or any kind of operation) a doctor performs. Read this important article about surgeon volume according to 2012 Medicare data. You will see that there are very few surgeons in the world that do more than 200 thyroid operations per year, and most surgeons who are "endocrine surgeons" do not. Think about that, at 200 thyroid operations per year….that is only four thyroid operations per week. We do more than four every day! Ask hard questions. Make your surgeon look you in the eye. And, if your surgeon says they perform more than 250 thyroid operations per year, everyone should know them because those surgeons are very few and far between. The US government data shows there are very few high volume surgeons, except the Clayman Thyroid Cancer Center and very few others. Get the best surgeon you can. Ask good hard questions. Make sure you like and trust your surgeon.