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Two thyroid biopsy results "abnormal"

I had a 4.5cm nodule on my thyroid,which I underwent a radioactive test, fine needle biopsy, and a frozen biopsy. The FNA and the Radioactive testing both came up as suspicious and my doctors wanted to evaluate further. I had surgery to remove the mass and half of my thyroid nodule. While on the table, they had a frozen biopsy on the module and the doctor found it to be "abnormal." He didn't answer any further questions and told us that he would send it out to pathology and that he had "a feeling this is benign." I was wondering what could this be other than cancer? I'm a 21 year old female who has been healthy for a fair part of her life.
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Radioactive test was useless if your T4 was normal; abnormal (atypical) cells are not cancerous (unless they have certain specific features)  
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I ended up having surgery to biopsy the mass. Turns out, my thyroid is black, the mass is just overgrown muscle and inflamed cells and the doctors are refusing to give me a straight answer as to whether the thyroid. was cancerous... They say that "its isn't not cancer but it also is not NOT cancer."Is it just me me, or is that confusing?The doctor then say I might have an autoimmune disorder but no testing is being done or anything.
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