A 38-year-old female asked:
thyroid u/s finding suspicious for malignancy with small flecks of calcification in irregular hypoechoic solid nodule but 3 biopsies are benign
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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
24 years experience Psychiatry
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Answered on Jun 1, 2017
Dr. Michael Gabor answered
32 years experience Diagnostic Radiology
"Suspicious": doesn't mean there is cancer, it only means there is some probability of cancer, which could be as low as 10%. Biopsy is the gold standard. If the biopsy is negative and shows a specific benign process that accounts for the nodule(concordant), then it is likely not cancer.
Answered on Apr 20, 2019
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