Usually, I'm glad that I have a huge medical library at my disposal. This past week, I'd probably have been better off in blissful ignorance.
Statistically, 95% of the growths on thyroids are not cancer, and of the five percent that are, something like 85% are easy to treat and have excellent rates of survival.
So you can guess what I keep reading about...the rare but horrible ones, of course. That's what keeps coming up in my literature searches. Of course, medical journals publish papers about rare and horrible things, because really, no one is interested in reading about the routine treatment of (yawn) benign conditions.
After the radiologist declined my doctor's CT scan request (the shellfish allergy scared them off), the doctor decided to add a referral to an endocrinologist, who I'll see tomorrow. It gives me something to do while I wait for the appointment with the surgeon.
I am way more freaked out than I have a right to be. Ninety-five percent, for goodness sake.
The worst type of thyroid cancer, there are only 300 new cases diagnosed a year in this country. That's one in a million. I have a lot of quirks, but I'm not one in a million.
I hope.
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