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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:20 pm    Post subject: thyroid cancer's spread to lungs nd spine..plzz help Reply with quote
Hi all of you,
My mom had her total thyroidectomy(for papillary cancer with follicular variance) in August 2006.She had no major symptoms , just some swelling in her neck..After the surgery she had been quite regular with her RAI scans and nothing came up in those scans..But she started having some pain in her lumbar spine and shoulder from december last year..We didn't take it seriously and she was put on painkillers.But a week back , the pain worsened and she was admitted in the hospital where she took A CT scan which revealed lesions in liver and lumbar spine..Today she had a PET scan which revealed cancer in one lobe of her lung and lumber spine and some in her shoulder.The doctor has scheduled a biopsy of lung to confirm if its thyroid cancer..She is 53 years of age..I would plzz like to know if anybody of you have had this experience..What are the prognosis??What are the treatment options and survival rates...??I m really worried about her..
Plzz do rply

Anna
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:36 pm    Post subject: Re: thyroid cancer's spread to lungs nd spine..plzz help Reply with quote
Hi Anna,

I am sorry about your mother's cancer. I am also sorry that no one has replied to you. I simply do not know anything about thyroid cancers and we have few member who have faced it. My suggestion to you is that you do a search for thyroid cancer and reply to someone else. I rarely advise this because of the danger of "hijacking" someone else's topic. However, in cases like this, it might be the best in order the stimulate conversation.

You and your mother are in my thoughts and prayers.
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PostPosted: Sat May 02, 2009 11:17 am    Post subject: Re: thyroid cancer's spread to lungs nd spine..plzz help Reply with quote
Anna,

I'm sorry to hear about your mother. I've been diagnosed and treated for papillary carcinoma about 4 months ago. I agree that it is also challenging to find others online....with some 35,000 new thyroid cancer diagnosed per year you'd think there would be more traffic.

My guess is that if the biopsy comes back as positive for papillary thyroid cancer then they may try to remove or debulk the tumors. Thyroid papillary carcinoma response well to radioactive iodine so I'm sure your doctors will consider this type of radiation treatment.

Keep your hopes high and thoughts positive. Papillary carcinoma is treatable yet it can be annoying because the 10 year recurrance rate is 15-30%.

Keep loving your mom that will help heal her.
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