Learn about what we offer at our center. A cancer diagnosis is always worrisome, but even if a nodule turns out to be thyroid cancer, you still have plenty of reasons to be hopeful. Thyroid cancer is one of the most treatable kinds of cancer. Surgery to remove the gland typically addresses the problem, and recurrences or spread of the cancer cells are both uncommon. People who undergo thyroid gland surgery may need to take thyroid hormone afterward to keep their body chemistry in balance.
Choosing an experienced specialist can mean more options to help personalize your treatment and achieve better results. Join endocrinologist Paul Ladenson, M. We have locations throughout western Pennsylvania for patient convenience. Share this on: You could be walking around with a thyroid nodule — a solid bump or fluid-filled lump in the thyroid gland at the base of the neck — and not even know it. Never Miss a Beat! Tap Click to Join!
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Message and data rates may apply. My sister has breast cancer and had full mastectomy a few months ago and still doing chemo. I can't tell my sister right now as she is very ill herself and my dad is old and would cause him too much worry.
I am on my own and after cancer has already hit my family. Has anyone had similar results and can share their experience? I hope I can get some answers once I see the endocrinologist on Monday and get the FNA done soon but right now I can't get my mind off this.
I have my biopsy on Monday afternoon, I have an appointment for the consultant the following Monday so I should know my results then.
I too am worried about the possibility of it spreading - you mention your mum had thyroid nodules which then turned into breast nodules; did it spread via her lymph nodes? All the best for your biopsy on Monday, I hope it all goes well. The anxiety and worry of the wait is awful. It seemed all ok and then 20 years later she was diagnosed with bile duct cancer. Having gone through all of that with my mum and still going through with my sister who has breast cancer, really terrifies me :.
You are doing the right thing by having this all checked out, leaving it and ignoring it is asking for disaster. Your mum seemed a fighter towards the cancer, as is your sister. I saw the ENT earlier and he has referred me for biopsy which I should have within 2 weeks. However my appointment to get the results is not till the end of the month.
I'm not sure how I am going to copy with my anxiety in the meantime. It is not easy I try to keep telling myself nothing bad is happening right now Interviewer: So if somebody had one of these incidental findings of a thyroid nodule, they should make an appointment with somebody such as yourself, an endocrinologist? Abraham: Yes. Most endocrinologists are capable of evaluating patients for thyroid nodules.
Interviewer: And then, when they come into your office, what types of things will you do to evaluate to see if it's cancerous or not? Abraham: We look at their clinical risk profile. Patients who have been exposed to external beam radiation, typical external beam radiation exposure occurs in some cancers, such as Hodgkin's Disease and leukemias for children.
All of these radiation exposures can increase patient's risk for developing thyroid nodules. Also, if there is a strong family history of thyroid cancer, that is also a risk factor for careful evaluation. So we look at the risk factors in patients and also the size and features of the nodule. And we perform what is called fine needle aspiration biopsy during the same visit.
Very small nodules, we generally don't do biopsies or nodules with the certain benign characteristics on ultrasound. Interviewer: And then what about those nodules that turn out to be not cancerous?
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