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  • HOME
    • The Team
    • Contact
  • Background
    • What is the thyroid gland?
    • What is cancer?
    • Types of thyroid cancer
    • What is over diagnosis?
    • Source articles
  • The monitoring experience
    • Discovering the nodule
    • Hearing the word 'cancer'
    • The process of questioning
    • Reading the medical literature
    • Cancer is not black and white
    • The risk -benefit analysis
    • Living with the decision
    • What this study means and does not mean
  • Tell us what you think!
  • Monitoring study archive
    • Welcome page
    • Basic Information
    • Detailed Information

The process of questioning

A Typical example:

 "My endocrinologist said “you should have it [thyroid gland] out in total” and he referred me to the surgeon. He was very black and white. He said, “Yup, it’s coming out. My wife had it and she’s fine and everything is cool with the Synthroid, blah, blah.” He was very matter of fact and it really was a turn off to me because there was really no conversation. So, I thought, okay, let’s expand and get some more opinions."

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