Thyroid gland which is responsible for producing hormones that regulate your weight, blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature is located just below the Adam’s apple. And this is place where thyroid cancer occurs in the cells of the thyroid.

There is an increase in the rate of cancer according to the National cancer Institute (NCI) approximately and every year 37,000 Americans are diagnosed with it. This increase would be because of new technology that let doctors to find small thyroid cancers.

Keith bible, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN of GlaxoSmithKline's cancer drug Votrient had conducted a Phase II study and it was seen in the results that tumors in nearly half of patients with an advanced form of thyroid cancer shrunk with the kidney drug.

A partial response with the use of pazopanib (Votrient) was shown by about 49 per cent of the participants in the trial with radioiodine-refractory progressive differentiated thyroid cancer.

The report also stated that the likelihood that it would be sustained for at least a year was 66 per cent. There was one common thing and it was the side effects of the drug and it could not be figured out if whether pazopanib gave a survival benefit.