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Thyroid Cancer
Archives for September 2011
Discussion List
Best place for treatment of ptc after a total thyroidectomy
I'm in Marin county California just north of San Francisco. Had a "TT" for pap ca which people abbreviate as ptc. I'm ready for rai. Have any of you gotten a second or third opinion before getting rai ? If so, where is the best place or places in California or the USA ? One doc said that I should consider getting the nodes…
How many of you have thyrogen side effects ? RAI side effects ? What were they, how bad, and how
Please share.
Can one private message another member here ?
How does one do it ?
Lymph nodes
I was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma in July of 2010, had a total thyroidectomy, and just recently found out that there is a reoccurrence of the cancer and will start RAI treatments in October. The question I have for anyone who can answer is: I have noticed in a lot of posts that this cancer has went to lymph nodes,…
Probable papillary spread to a lymph node on the side of my New York friend's neck
Wow. Thyroid cancer is more prevalent. My old high school buddy John in New York called me. (I told him to join and post here but his wife rags on him that he already spends too much time on the internet). He had his thyroid removed completely two months ago in Boston for papillary cancer. Now in New York on ultrasound…
new article I came across about when to take your synthroid
http://www.thyroid.org/patients/ct/volume4/issue5/ct_patients_v45_7.html to me this sounds like I might be able to start takeing it at night instead of in the morning... is that what everyone else reads... wouldnt it make it so much easyer to take it at bed time if you dont take other pills then. Craig thats my thoughts…
September 1st the first day of thyroid cancer awareness month
Get the free handout, Know the Signs, at http://www.thyca.org/knowsigns.pdf Many more are here: http://www.thyca.org/awareness.htm Or e-mail thyca@thyca.org for free materials by mail. --- Well its thyroid cancer awareness month. in my opinion its my month to shout louder than the breast cancer awareness people .. i know…
The its a major surgery list
ok i posted this on another board but I figured it would be usefull to have it hear as well and besides you can add to it this is at this point all my list and I thought of and typed it in 5-10 min. --- in refrence to its a good cancer Not sure if I mentioned this one before... It is kind of like the doctor saying we had…