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solid nodule with microcalcifications
.Dr. Lupo;
This is my third try posting! My 27 years old daughter had an MRI for unrelated issues and they found a thyroid nodule 12 by 10 mm. According to US nodule is solid, microcalcifications and hypovascularity. She will be having a FNA in a few days. If this is cancer, is there any possibility that the FNA procedure will spread the cancer cells outside the nodule? The doctor is not overlie concerned...
Thanks in advance for your answer. .
This is my third try posting! My 27 years old daughter had an MRI for unrelated issues and they found a thyroid nodule 12 by 10 mm. According to US nodule is solid, microcalcifications and hypovascularity. She will be having a FNA in a few days. If this is cancer, is there any possibility that the FNA procedure will spread the cancer cells outside the nodule? The doctor is not overlie concerned...
Thanks in advance for your answer. .
Yuo are sooo sweet and helpful!!!! I have been doing a lot of reading and also found out about two friends who have had thyroid cancer many years ago and are totally fine! Yes, I am concerend....She is my only child and I am a cancer survivor. I am doing great, it was caught right at its beginning (endometrail cancer), only had surgery and end of probelm....but still wory about the kid!.
Thanks again for all your support. FNA next Friday. Will keep you posted.
Thanks again for all your support. FNA next Friday. Will keep you posted.
Thanks Barb...I cannot seem to get my question in the other med forum, but will keep on trying. My only concern is that the nodule is solid with microcalcifications...will see. Still waiting for FNA appointment as it has to be with a guided US as the nodule is very small.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
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Dr Lupo does not monitor this forum. You have to ask questions on the expert forum in order to get a response from him. If you did that and your post ended up here, that means there were too many questions for that forum. You can keep trying to get your question in.
In answer to your question, no, the FNA will not spread the cancer (if that's what it is) outside the nodule. Her doctor is probably not overly concerned, because 95% of all thyroid nodules are not cancer. If one has thyroid cancer, the thyroid is removed and the cancer goes with it. Thyroid cancer is the most easily cured cancer there is.
In answer to your question, no, the FNA will not spread the cancer (if that's what it is) outside the nodule. Her doctor is probably not overly concerned, because 95% of all thyroid nodules are not cancer. If one has thyroid cancer, the thyroid is removed and the cancer goes with it. Thyroid cancer is the most easily cured cancer there is.
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So first time I answered you question I looked around, for some other types of biopsies where they are looking for potentially dangerous and aggressive cancers, they use a more compacted setup to prevent seeding. They don't do that with thyroid biopsies (which tells me something)
I think the answer is seeding isn't much of an issue with thyroid cancer. 99% of all thyroid cancer is really really lazy cancer. it's like your friends kid who's 30 and lives in the basement, watches TV and has never had a job or girlfriend. It's not going anywhere.
What I read is, with someone like your daughter with a small nodule, young and in good health the chance of being cured if she has thyroid cancer is 100%. No joke.
I know you are worried. But really it'll totally okay.