Hi, everyone
First of all I would like to wish you all the very best in your struggle right now. I am a concerned mom with a question regarding my son who was diagnosed with papillary cancer.
After having a single needle biopsy, ultrasound, CT scan and MRI which all didn't really show much of anything, finally was sent to a surgeon who removed a very large mass on one side of his neck. While in doing the surgery it was found to be cancerous so part of the thyroid, one lobe, the isthmus and the lymph nodes on that side were all removed. Cancer had spread to the clavicle.
Post-op he was told he would need to go back in and remove the rest of the thyroid before under going treatment. My question is, did this happen to anyone else out there. Obviously, it would have been better to have the whole thyroid removed at the time of the initial surgery, but the surgeon felt lets wait and see what the pathology comes back and tells us.
Concerned Mom