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A member asked:
Do i need rai for papillary thyroid cancer if my #s were pt1b & pn1a if diagnosed @ age 39 ? didn't list metastasis other than pn1a. don't want rai.
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Pap thyroid cancer: Based on this staging, the tumor was 1-2 cm with some local tumor detected: an intermediate risk situation. Presumably you had a total thyroidectomy; but the surgeon can't get it all, so rai cleans up both cancer and residual thyroid and permits detection of recurrance. Most endo's would recommend rai. But if you wanted to delay a bit (eg. Pregnancy) you could, since pap ca is slow growing.
Answered 3/12/2020
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