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Posted 8/10/2017 3:49 AM (GMT 0)
Have a 10mm x 6mm x 9mm thyroid nodule.
Just had an FNA and came back 50-70% high risk for cancer.
I thought an FNA came back as benign, malignant, or indeterminate. Why did it come back as a %?

Now it's being sent off for molecular testing (?)

ENT surgeon leaning toward surgery and taking out the right lobe.

Do I wait for the molecular testing? Do I go ahead and move forward while waiting on test results? Dr said that molecular testing will probably come back with same % chance for cancer. I thought it was just a positive or negative!
Posted 8/12/2017 11:20 AM (GMT 0)
Dear Lizzard77,

I have no experience with nodules, anyway, in third of the cases they shrink when start taking thyroid medications in case of autoimmunity, so if you have hashi and it causing you hypo then levo can shrink the nodule this is of course if it is not cancerous, if it is cancer then your surgeon should remove it and they give you RAI to destroy any remaining tissue of your thyroid and a suppression dose of levo.

If your surgeon removes your nodule and only it, then most probably that you have hashi and thus need to be put on some dose of Levothyroxine to balance your hypo.

Best wishes,
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