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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
I know, but I heard she had the whole thyroid removed, which could mean it's one of the more aggressive versions.
Fingers crossed.
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Nah Sundae, they're removing my whole thyroid JUST IN CASE. Thats the odd thing about some thyroid cancers, you can't actually just do a test to see if its cancer before you remove it. You have to remove at least the lobe with the abnormality in order to biopsy and find out. Removing just the abnormality tends to have more complications than removing the whole lobe believe it or not. In addition to that, depending on the condition of the other lobe, they just take that one too. Thyroid cancers are usually contained in with in the thyroid, not much worry about it spreading. She just has to take a simple (and cheap even here in the US) synthetic hormone to regulate.