hi debbieliv, lilyann here, yes, i do believe you are correct as far as some trends like hysterectomies were back in the 70's. i am so glad that things did work out for you and i believe from all my reading now that you probably did not have the aggressive papillary cancer, so i am very happy for you. on the second surgery is when i found out that my papillary was aggressive and guess what, now its listed as differentiated cancer, meaning right next to the anaplastic. which is the worst one. i had no idea what a journey it was going to be and when i got the radioactive iodine, high dose, did not know and that was after the second surgery. so the storms of life are still going on. again, so happy for you and so glad you wrote back to tell me. they also told me.......that if i did not have the surgery, that i would have been long gone. so it bewilders me as to how they come up with this and that and the reason the radioactive iodine did not kill off the rest of the cancer as they said it would..........because of the anaplastic. so we learn from one another and i have surely learned from being on mayo, don't know what i would do with out all the people that write in and so glad for each and every one of them. so you take care.