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Hi, I should introduce myself as a thyroid cancer patient who had a hemi-thyroidectomy last year. My voice was perfect after surgery and also for a couple of months after. The subtype is uncertain because the surgeon left his role and pathologist’s...
Hi everyone, I'm new here and have been coping with papillary thyroid cancer for about a year. I'll try to put a long story short. I was diagnosed with Graves disease around 3 years ago and after 2 years of meds it was decided a more permanent option...
Hello, I'm new on this forum. I had surgery to have my thyroid removed 3 weeks ago. I was diagnosed with anal cancer last year and had chemoradiation for it. During a follow up scan for that I was found to have a thyroid nodule. I am recovering fairly...
Hi. I am new here. I went to have a ultrasound on my parathyroid glands last August as my calcium levels were high for a long time. They noticed that there was something on my right side of my thyroid. After many scans I had my parathyroid glands on the...
Hi Everybody, I'm a newbie here. I was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer that had spread to 5 regional lymph nodes back in Nov 2024. When I was diagnosed, they initially thought it was worse than it turned out to be because a ton of lymph nodes...
Hi, I have had my first check up after a thyroidectomy and RAI for stage 3 papillary cancer which fortunately went well. My concern is that I have been transferred back to ENT by my oncologist and the registrar said that he would not need to see me for...
Hello, new on here and I'm writing on behalf of my partner. Late last year he was diagnosed with stage 4 thyroid cancer which was completely out of the blue as had no symptoms he was aware of apart from tiredness, which he out down to another issue. He...
Well, this is somewhere I never imagined I would be. I don't really know who to speak to or what to say. In person anyway. Maybe it's easier on an anonymous forum to start with. I've already had a right hemithyroidectomy. Been diagnosed with Follicular...
Hi Eveyone, I was diagonsed with papillary thyroid cancer in 2019. I was on a drug in my early teenage years to help with my active acne. The drug was called roaccutane. This drug has now been removed from the market due to its major side effects...
Hi I stopped calcium tablets 5 weeks ago but have not had a blood test since they were stopped, I'm going to have surgery for ovarian cyst. Does anyone know if a blood test should be done after stopping them last blood test parathyroid went back to normal...
