Hello monicanatura, There is a history of thyroid problems in my family (goiters, hypo and hyper), but no cancer until my younger brother was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer about 4 years ago. He's had a total thyroidectomy with neck dissection and multiple nodes removed over the years which is pretty uncommon for that type of cancer. I didn't have any signs that I'm aware of up until the CT scan in December, which showed a 2cm nodule in my left lobe along with a tumor on one of my adrenal glands (this turned out to be non-functioning and they are just going to keep an eye on it). They did an FNA on my thyroid which came back as undetermined but my doctor suspects mixed follicular and papillary cancer, especially having a sibling with thyroid cancer. Apparently, FNAs on the thyroid are very hard to get reliable results from. It seems to be contained and very slow growing but my doctor advised a lobectomy so they can send it off for pathology. If it comes back positive I'll have to have the rest out and probably radioactive iodine treatment. I haven't been given any advice on diet yet, but I guess I'll have to do the low iodine if I have to do the radioactive iodine treatment. I think they were more concerned about the breast cancer and not delaying chemo as my mastectomy was on Jan 24th. I'm going in for the thyroid surgery next Friday and have to stay for a week, then out and start chemo a few days later. They did ask if I wanted to wait to do the surgery until after chemo, but I'd rather get it done while I'm feeling strong. If I wait I'll worry about it for the next 6 months! A lot to process there but I'm on medical leave from work now so I have plenty of time to research and try to figure it all out. If you have any dietary advice I'd be very interested (need to lose some weight too!). x
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