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Cancer?? 2 thyroid nodules: Help understanding ultrasound results
Thyroid Cancer | Last Active: Jun 4 7:54am | Replies (6)Comment receiving replies
@gilbie5
It seems like you may need to have a lobectomy to remove the suspicious nodules and send them to pathology for examination.
I had a suspicious 2.5 cm nodule found on my right lobe incidentally when testing for something else. I had the biopsy and microscopic cytology and it was indeterminate so I decided to get it removed. I was in my early 50s and my sister had her full thyroid removed at the age of 27 due to thyroid cancer so I didn’t want to take a chance leaving it in there.
The pathology came back that the 2.5 cm nodule was a different makeup and not cancer but they did find a micro cancer elsewhere in the lobe.
Do you have any family history of thyroid cancer or Hashimoto’s thyroiditis? Have you had your thyroid bloodwork done for Hashimoto’s TPO autoantibodies?
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Thank you for sharing your experience!
My cousin had thyroid cancer and had the thyroid removed and then had a regrowth years and had to have that removed as well.
Thyroid blood work has always been normal…
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@gilbie5
Continued…I have to keep monitoring my left lobe due to a macro calcification and they even do ultrasound on the right side where the lobe used to be to monitor for any regrowth of thyroid tissue (wasn’t aware it can grow back).
I now take levothyroxine 100 mcg daily due to hypothyroidism.
Good luck on next steps. Do not let worry control you. You’ve got this!