Thyroid Cancer
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young doctor with cancer... let's find answers together
Hi everyone! new to this - cancer and this forum Let me start by saying that just by initially browsing the topics from this forum that it's like reading into my own thoughts. I'm 30 years old, an internal medicine resident doctor and recently found that the thyroid tumor they took out of me was papillary cancer. I'm…
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Extracapsular Extension in PTC
Hi everyone, I'm new here! I was just diagnosed with PTC and have surgery coming up on August 1st for a total thyroidectomy. My ultrasound showed that there was extracapsular extension into the strap muscles. Just wondering if anyone else has had this and how did it affect the surgery, recovery, etc. Did you have to have…