- Re: Got the Pathology report...

[Guest guest]

Hi, -

> ...they say nurses make the worst patients... )

I think they're overlooking about doctors as patients :-)

> The verdict: papillary cancer, 6 mm, also cancer cells in one of

> three lymph nodes removed.

nice and small, and a good thing they found it early, especially with spread to

the nodes ...

I hope someone with more experience in this will write in.

I know we have ThyCa members with diabetes, and that there are some specific

issues relating to thyca and diabetes, but I don't know of any specific causal

relationship between thyroid cancer and

diabetes.

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NYC

> I also saw my endocrinologist today. I had called him too last week

> to let him know I had the surgery and to find out how he manages

> thyca patients since I will be following up with him for a long

> while. I also wanted to speak with him because my blood sugars were

> going up. I have only been a gestational diabetic, during my second

> pregnancy in 1999. However, there is a strong family history. SO

> I've been waiting for that shoe to drop too.

>

> Has anyone else had similar expereinces? The endo says its too early

> to tell if I have diabetes or if its just the stress of surgery, etc

> that is causing this rise in my sugars. We are hoping for the latter

> but then again, they told me when they found my nodule that 90% are

> benign...HAHA

>

> STACY

> TT 11/27/02 Papillary cancer, 6mm

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