Radiated as infant

Just discovered this site. My thymus was irradiated shortly after I was born in 1944 in western Pennsylvania. In the 60s or 70s my parents saw a 60 Minutes story on the incidence of thyroid cancer in people so treated in infancy and notified me. I immediately had a doctor check it (negative), but in 1978 when undergoing a pre-departure physical for my first Foreign Service post, the doctor asked, "What's that bump on your throat?" Two days later I underwent a complete thyroidectomy for a follicular carcinoma. Since then 44 years have passed, and a lot of doctors have monkeyed around with my levothyroxine levels (including at present), but the main point is obviously that a diagnosis and surgery aren't necessarily anything like the end of the story.