Thank you everyone...and even you Pollux. You might not have said anything nice, but you took the time to read the thread and add your own "spice". I definitely appreciate all the support and well wishes from everyone. We always hear the word cancer spoken..sometimes we hear it daily and it doesn't quite effect you until you hear it as it pertains to someone you know (maybe even just on a message board). That same word spoken to you about you by a doctor becomes quite deafening. It really makes you look at things quite differently. I told another getbigger tonight that even though I don't know everyone that I speak to on this board when I come on here ... I feel like I'm hanging with friends ... and that helps. So even though we all do poke fun at each other (some more than others
) I want to thank you all for being there to make me laugh and even meltdown once in a while.
'Most thyroid cancers are very curable. In fact, the most common types of thyroid cancer (papillary and follicular) are the most curable. In younger patients, both papillary and follicular cancers can be expected to have better than 97% cure rate if treated appropriately.'
http://www.endocrineweb.com/thyroidca.html
Bast, you are right. Most thyroid cancers are curable. My situation is a bit more complex though unfortunately. I've had these nodules on my thyroid now for almost 4 years, who knows how long I've had cancer in them as they were never biopsied in the past. I also have an auto-immune disease and have had enlarged lymph nodes in my chest for 7 months now, while they were concentrating on thinking it was the Sarcoidosis that made them enlarged. The treatment they have me on for the Sarcoid didn't help the lymph nodes decrease in size. Believe me, I am praying every second that when they get in there (chest) everything is clean as a whistle and they pull out the diseased thyroid, give me my treatments after the surgery and say "you're good as gold". But if not...then I plan on fighting my ass off.
