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    • 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
  • 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

WHAT patients with thyroid nodules THINK
​EVERYONE with a  nodule  should know
(AND THEY HAD A HARD TIME FIGURING OUT...)

  • What the thyroid gland is and why you need one (or thyroid medication if you do not have your thyroid gland)​
  • Benefits and harms of needle biopies
    • What the pathology report ('cytology readings') from a needle biopsy mean
  • Cancer is not just a one-size fits all type of disease
  • How doctors think and how medical testing works
  • Benefits and harms of thyroid surgery 
  • The implications/imperfections with the pill that will replace the function of the thyroid gland
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