Nodule growing in size - complex cystic

[Lizzie799]

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me out here.  I just got my ultrasound report and I am very nervous.  I don't have an appointment with the endocrinologist until the end of May.
Last year while being treated for ovarian cancer they incidentally found thyroid nodules.  Had an ultrasound and these were the characteristics:
From Jan 2010:
     Right Thyroid:
        In the upper pole of the right thyroid there is a 7 x 11 x 7 mm
     dominantly cystic lesion which does show significantly increased
     Doppler flow in the solid components.  No microcalcifications.
        In the mid pole of the thyroid there is a 10 x 6 x 10-mm solid
     thyroid nodule with predominant peripheral vascular flow.  No
     microcalcifications.
      
     No right sided adenopathy is detected.
      
     Isthmus:
        There is a 12 x 6 x 11 mm nodule with minimally increased Doppler
     flow.  No microcalcifications.
      
     Left Thyroid:
        In the upper pole the left thyroid there is a 7 x 5 x 3 mm
     hypoechoic solid nodule without central flow or microcalcifications.
          
     No left sided adenopathy is detected.

Went to endo, because my brother had papillary thyroid cancer he biopsied one of them.   It came back benign.  He said to follow up in one year.  

Now it's one year later and this is the result of my ultrasound:

From Apr 2011:
     Right Thyroid:
     Nodule  #1: mid pole, 1.2 x 0.9 by 1.7 cm, cystic, no internal flow,
     no microcalcifications, slightly increased in size.
     Nodule #2: Midpole, Complex cystic, 1.3 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm, no internal
     flow, no microcalcifications, enlarged with more internal complexity.
      
     No right sided adenopathy is detected.
      
     Isthmus:
     Nodule #1: (right isthmus), 0.8 x 0.7 x 0 .4 cm, predominantly solid,
     no microcalcifications, no internal flow, slightly decreased in size.
     nodule #2: (Left isthmus), 0.5 x 0 .2 cm, cystic no
     microcalcifications.
      
     Left Thyroid:
     Nodule #1: Left midpole, 0.4 x 0.3 cm, cystic, no microcalcifications
     are
     No left sided adenopathy is detected.
      
     The right lobe measures 4.3 cm in sagittal dimension.  
     The left lobe measures 3.6 cm in sagittal dimension.

I guess I am concerned about nodule #2 in the right thyroid, increased size and increased internal complexity.  Is this something I need to worry about?  My family history for cancer is bad....In the past 10 years...dad liver cancer, sister #1 breast cancer, sister # 2 breast cancer, brother prostate then thyroid cancer, and me ovarian cancer.  
Thanks for any insight and I'm sorry this is so long.
Liz

[godisgood32]

I was just told by my doctor that I have an enlarged thyroid measuring 1.4x1.3x4.0cm I am worried my son was diagnosed with carcinoma on his thyroid and is still being treated.  I am scared and don't want to have any thyroid problems. Can some one tell me what this means?

[armywife92]

No flow is good,  it's barely 1 cm, and it's not solid, nor are there microcalcifications noted.  I had 3 nodules/cysts and they were hypoechoic, and solid...features that studies show a much higher chance of it being cancer. I worried in vain b/c they all dissapeared with the exception of one, but the one that remains actually shrank. All of your findings are good signs. I know you're worried about it being cancer, and cancer is never a good thing to hear, BUT if there is such a thing as good cancer this is it. If caught early (which ''if ''you have thyroid cancer, this would be considered early) it's a 95%-97% cure rate.

Sorry about the family history, but you are a survivor.