Thank you for sharing your story. I just had a thyroidectomy and I'm reading up about papillary cancer more as my pathology came back stage III since it had broken out of the thyroid capsule. I can't help but imagine where in my body microscopic pieces of the bastard cancer are and if they are setting up shop in my brain. My biggest question today, will the radioactive iodine finds cells even in my brain? I haven't met with the nuclear medicine specialist yet.
I am having confidence in my doctors though I feel that my own observations about my condition have fallen on deaf ears. Before surgery I shared that I had neck involvement and that my lymph activity had gone bonkers since my FNA biopsy, I was treated like I had a healthy imagination. My surgeon found that the tumor had grown up against muscle tissue in my neck and was a lengthier extraction procedure than he thought it would be. I am glad he took his time to get it all. We'll see what he tells me tomorrow at my 1 week follow up appointment.
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Thank you for sharing your story. I just had a thyroidectomy and I'm reading up about papillary cancer more as my pathology came back stage III since it had broken out of the thyroid capsule. I can't help but imagine where in my body microscopic pieces of the bastard cancer are and if they are setting up shop in my brain. My biggest question today, will the radioactive iodine finds cells even in my brain? I haven't met with the nuclear medicine specialist yet.
I am having confidence in my doctors though I feel that my own observations about my condition have fallen on deaf ears. Before surgery I shared that I had neck involvement and that my lymph activity had gone bonkers since my FNA biopsy, I was treated like I had a healthy imagination. My surgeon found that the tumor had grown up against muscle tissue in my neck and was a lengthier extraction procedure than he thought it would be. I am glad he took his time to get it all. We'll see what he tells me tomorrow at my 1 week follow up appointment.
March 24, 2009 - 11:12amThis Comment
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