first uterine now having biopsy for thyroid cancer

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  • RoseyR
    RoseyR Member Posts: 471 Member
    #22
    minniejan said:

    keep me posted
    Hello,

    I have been told by my endocrinologist that there is no correlation between the two cancers which is good news actually. My UPSC was agressive and now I have papillary carcinoma which is supposed to be slow growing. I do go to another surgical specialist next week to talk about surgery, but from the new ultrasound done last week for the needle biopsy they found two more nodules on the other side. Now I have 5 solid nodules. Originally I believe I only had 3 solid nodules on one side. They are recommending removing the entire thyroid and again sampling some of the lymph nodes, looking around, etc. But until the surgery is done and the results are back I don't know where I stand. And today I go for my 3 month checkup on the uterine cancer. Fun, fun fun......

    Minniejan

    As I said earlier, I think you'll be fine as thyroid is one of the easier cancers to treat, but I have a question for all of you:

    If thre is no connection between our uterine and our thyrodi tumors, why--nearly every time my oncologist examines me--does she spend time on only ONE part of my body byeond a pelvic exam: my neck? She is always papitating my neck as if feeling for suspicious growths. Never does she examine ANY other part of my body beyond the pelvis.

    Explanations, anyone?

    Thanks,
    Rosey
  • RoseyR
    RoseyR Member Posts: 471 Member
    #23
    minniejan said:

    thanks for the thoughts!
    Hello,
    Scheduled my surgery on the thyroid for next week, but the surgeon wanted to wait til the results of my normal three month checkup for UPSC came back. And I was sent for an additional test, a CT scan of the abdomen which scared me. With 1A I was originally told I would not have scans unless my CA 125 went up, then they (gyn oncologist) told me they wanted a scan anyway nine months out from chemo and radiation. In addition my surgeon did not want to schedule the thyroid surgery until we were as certain as we could be that the UPSC is still NED. Everything checked out okay, so I am now 9 months NED! So on to fight the next battle!
    MinnieJan

    Best of Luck, Minnie

    I'm sure you'll sail through this surgery. Know you have a daughter and support system, but should you have any lulls in visitors, let me know. (On sabbatical leave, I live ten minutes from the Pearlman Center and wouldn't stay more than half an hour. Just contact me at my private email.)

    Best Wishes,
    Rosey
  • lkchapman
    lkchapman Member Posts: 106
    #24
    RoseyR said:

    As I said earlier, I think you'll be fine as thyroid is one of the easier cancers to treat, but I have a question for all of you:

    If thre is no connection between our uterine and our thyrodi tumors, why--nearly every time my oncologist examines me--does she spend time on only ONE part of my body byeond a pelvic exam: my neck? She is always papitating my neck as if feeling for suspicious growths. Never does she examine ANY other part of my body beyond the pelvis.

    Explanations, anyone?

    Thanks,
    Rosey

    Why?
    Hi Rosey,
    I think the reason why your oncologist exams your neck is that a common and easily examined place for most cancers to metastasize is to the supraclavicular lymph nodes. Those are the nodes in the neck. Lymph fluid moves upward through the body. I believe someone posted a good link on here a while back about lymph nodes and how they work.

    Laura
  • Ro10
    Ro10 Member Posts: 1,561 Member
    #25
    lkchapman said:

    Why?
    Hi Rosey,
    I think the reason why your oncologist exams your neck is that a common and easily examined place for most cancers to metastasize is to the supraclavicular lymph nodes. Those are the nodes in the neck. Lymph fluid moves upward through the body. I believe someone posted a good link on here a while back about lymph nodes and how they work.

    Laura

    Laura is right
    Three of my enlarged nodes are in the neck area. A supraclavicular, para tracheal, and and a precarinal node are all enlarged. I am always asked if I have any trouble swallowing, along with the neck exam. My other two enlarged nodes are a right and left paraaortic node, so they palpate my abdomen also. They can never feel anything which is a good thing.
  • minniejan
    minniejan Member Posts: 88
    #26
    bcbutler said:

    thyroid and uterine cancer connection?
    I just found this website - MinnieJan, I hope you will have a successful thryoid cancer surgery. Last summer I was 5 years thryoid-cancer-free, now I'm to have a D and C to determine whether I have uterine cancer so I was searching to see if there could be a connection between the two.

    The right endocrinologist makes all the difference. They found my thryoid cancer when I went to have my galbladder out, and it had already spread to lymph nodes. I had radioactive iodide, then 6 months later whan a nuclear scan showed uptake I did that again. My jaw swelled up then and I was told it had nothing to do with thyroid cancer, go find an ear-nose-and-throat guy. I found the University of Colorado Cancer Center and they did a 2nd surgery (cutting ear-to-ear, with an ultrasound in there), finding more malignant lymph nodes near my jaw.

    I'm looking forward to hearing that you are OK now.

    thanks for the thoughts
    Hi,

    Thanks for the thoughts. Yes the correct endocrinologist makes all the difference. The first one I went to told me my 5 nodules were just cysts. The second doc is great,picked up on the cancer right away, along with a wonderful surgeon. I should have stayed at HUP rather than going to a local hospital the first time. Had surgery last Wednesday, compared to the uterine surgery, it was just an overnight stay. Of course now I wait for the results of the biopsies of the thyroid nodules and lymph nodes, and we go from there with possible RAI. My biggest fear is that the lymph node biopsy will show USPC and not papillary thyroid cancer. In all probability it isn't, but I worry just the same.

    MinnieJan
  • Rewriter
    Rewriter Member Posts: 493 Member
    #27
    minniejan said:

    thanks for the thoughts
    Hi,

    Thanks for the thoughts. Yes the correct endocrinologist makes all the difference. The first one I went to told me my 5 nodules were just cysts. The second doc is great,picked up on the cancer right away, along with a wonderful surgeon. I should have stayed at HUP rather than going to a local hospital the first time. Had surgery last Wednesday, compared to the uterine surgery, it was just an overnight stay. Of course now I wait for the results of the biopsies of the thyroid nodules and lymph nodes, and we go from there with possible RAI. My biggest fear is that the lymph node biopsy will show USPC and not papillary thyroid cancer. In all probability it isn't, but I worry just the same.

    MinnieJan

    I would bet
    almost anything that you are going to be just fine, MinneJan. My sister recently had surgery for thyroid cancer just a year after her treatment ended for colon cancer. She was, of course, worried about a metastasis; but her surgeon was not worried about that at all. The biopsy showed papillary thyroid cancer, the most common kind, and the pathology report showed exactly the same thing. No lymph nodes were affected; although her endocrinologist felt that even if they were, the RAI would be "curative." My best wishes.

    Jill

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