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If you have thyroid cancer will your tsh level in your blood test be bad?
10 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Usually not.: Tsh controls how the thyroid makes thyroid hormones. Tsh levels change in response to hormone levels. Thyroid cancers don't make thyroid hormones, so TSH isn't usually affected. Tsh itself is a hormone that can stimulate some throid cancers. One goal of thyoid cancer treatment is low TSH levels.
Answered 5/21/2019
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No: Your blood tests can all be completely normal with thyroid cancer. There is absolutely no correlation between your blood tests and thyroid cancer. The only way to diagnose thyroid cancer is by fna of a suspicious nodule.
Answered 5/18/2019
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Usually not: Thryoid cancer, in and of itself, usually is not related to changes in the TSH level.
Answered 12/5/2019
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