Thyroid Cancer

[concernedgirly]

Just wondered if anyone on here has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer?
I had my thyroid removed due to graves disease and my pathology report came back showing I have thyroid cancer and it has spread to lymph nodes.
Im so scared not knowing how long it will be till I can get treated.

I have no knowledge of this at all I just see this randomly, just wanted to wish you good luck getting it sorted and to just show some support. Take Care

I am so sorry you have had this diagnosis, OP. I haven't had it, but my mum and every one of her siblings have had it (7 of them). My grandmother had Graves Disease.
Going by my own family history (they've had other cancers as well- unrelated to the thyroid- the thyroid cancers have all been primaries), I would say that thyroid cancer, if you have to get cancer, is one of the better ones! The prognosis tends to be excellent. The good thing is, you have the thyroid out, so I imagine they'll zap the lymph nodes now.
Best of luck to you! It's scary because cancer just is that, scary. But try and hang onto the fact that this type tends to have an excellent prognosis.

When I had thyroid cancer (2 ops, radioiodine) I found this website really useful for info: www.butterfly.org.uk/

I was diagnosed and treated last year for papillary thyroid cancer. I had a TT and bilateral neck dissection. The pathology report found 2 tumours and 21 cancerous lymph nodes. I then went on and had RAI therapy. I was admitted into the cancer ward prior to going into isolation for RAI. Those 2 hours made me realise how lucky I was, my treatment caused no hair loss, weight loss, sickness etc. RAI is very uneventful, sitting in a room in complete isolation for 3 days.
Thyroid cancer is very slow growing and I was told as long as RAI is completed within 6 months of operation it will be fine. At the moment most hospitals have suspended RAI so you might have a while to wait.

Thanks you all

They haven't removed the lymph nodes yet, they have told me that I will need another operation to remove lymph nodes and then RAI.

@concernedgirly so was it thyroid cancer mistakenly diagnosed as Graves’ disease ? Or did one cause the other? My aunt is going through the same thing. They removed her thyroid due to Graves’ disease that they said was brought on through pregnancy and as a total shock to her they found cancer on the left side