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Cherchez la Femme

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Fri Feb 17, 2012, 10:17 PM Feb 2012

Anyone knowledgeable on Thyroid cancer? [View all]

Good links?

I don't know what type it is yet, the reading I've done on the internet has been all over the place -- on one site, in one sentence alone, they said that treatment can be anything from doing nothing at all to them or the thyroid (regarding the 'nodules' -- what exactly ARE those? Lesions? Polyps? Plaques? Scar tissue? Other?) to removing the entire thyroid, or one lobe (although I have many and they are all large >1.5 cm)

and then they mention both radiation and chemo but don't say that it must be done in conjunction with surgical removal.

*sigh*

Waiting to find out the pathology results is the hardest part...

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Anyone knowledgeable on Thyroid cancer? [View all] Cherchez la Femme Feb 2012 OP
I'll try. I had thyroid cancer in 1997... YvonneCa Feb 2012 #1
Thank you! Cherchez la Femme Feb 2012 #2
The radiation was an interesting... YvonneCa Feb 2012 #3
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