thyroid cancer--runs in families...??!!

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OK--guess it is my turn.

A year ago my daughter (19yrs at the time)had her thyroid removed--

papillary with follicular variant and hashimoto's. She went thru all

the I-131 and scan. This year her scan is clean--no thyroid tissue

remaining. Cancer doc said she is cured--but will be followed with

tests and scans for a few yrs.

My Mom had to have a partial thyroidectomy last Oct. Hers all of a

sudden got enlarged and the cells in her thyroid were changing--not

deffinately cancer though.

Now--I have nodules in the " mm " sizes on both sides of my thyroid.

The endo is going to suppress my tsh level. How will that affect me?

Will I feel OK or be hypo or hyper? Will that help prevent the

nodules from growing?

By now, I would think I knew all about thyroid problems!! ha ha

Thanks for any and all input on this. I will be watching the board

and learning more now.

Thanks!

Janet :-)

P.S. My Great Aunt (on my Mom's side) had papillary cancer also.