Tall cell version of papillary thyroid cancer

The rarer varients such as your tall cell and my hurthle cell types are statistically a bit less treatable but still - compared to all the other cancers out there - have great clear up rates. 
Age can be a factor, but it plays out more strongly in people who are a lot older than you.

Treatment is the same regardless of variants so try not to dwell on what you had and that you've now had cut out. 

Thanks Barbara, that’s reassuring about my age, but it’s the mediastinal metastasis that is my main concern.  And I’ve read that RIA doesn’t always work for this variant.   The consultant said they see one person per year like me -  I’m being treated in a major centre. My husband has advanced bowel cancer so it’s all a bit much!  But I’m back at work now and have a good summer planned, so November feels a long way off.