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Thyroid Cancer
Archives for September 2008
Discussion List
FVPTC - RAI or not?
Hi, everyone. I am 29 and diagnosed with FVPTC (follicular variant papillary) in June. I had a total thyroidectomy on the table when the biopsy results came back (I had another nodule in the other side that was also FVPTC). Now I have recurrent growth in the thyroid bed and one lymph node although my nodes came back clean…
Biopsy Back - Questions
I am looking for information from experienced members. FNA after ultrasound found atypical cells in a 2.1 cm fixed, solid nodule with small cystic component. It is a solitary dominant nodule in multi nodular thyroid. I am 55 year old woman and I may have had radiaton treatment in '50's as a child to treat tonsillitis and I…
tsh levels...
I am currently awaiting RAI treatment so I have to wait until my TSH levels are 25 or higher... Are there any ways to speed up this process or is it just a waiting game? My endocrin wanted to give me thyrogen, but radiology said not with the first scan. I am really nervous about having to go hypothyroid for this b/c I have…
Information Needed
Two months ago a CT scan for a lung nodule (not diagnosed just monitored) found a hypodensity with undifferentiated margins in left lobe of thyroid. First doctor lost all my records. When I finally got to specialist with records this week ENT with specializationin thyroid disease did an ultrasound in office and found multi…
Cancer Returned
Hello, my name is andrew pease and I had been cancer free for two years following total thyroidectomy and radiation treatments. they found two new spots in my throat in the exact same area as my thyroid one is 1cm and the other is 4mm. I go in for ultrasound biopsy again, because my doctor screwed up the last biopsy and…
TSH went down (followup to post-TT)
Hi all...this is a followup to the post I made a few months ago (June) when my TSH had risen to 3.82 despite having a total thyroidectomy in March. I was raised from 100 mcg to 125 mcg of Synthroid, and a few weeks ago (Aug 15) TSH tested at .946, just below 1. Should it be lower to suppress cancer recurrence (or not,…