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I recently had a fna biopsy of a thyroid nodule. i was told it was 80% odds it was cancer . 6x5x5 mm with irregular margins, solid, coarse calcifications, hypoechoic, min. internal vascularity, peripheral vascularity, anterior adjacent to coarse calc?

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Biopsy: In cases like this I advise a second opinion from a pathologist at a university hospital or a center that has special interest in thyroid cancer.

Answered 5/28/2020

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A member asked:

I recently had a fna biopsy of a thyroid nodule. i was told it was 80% odds it was cancer . 6x5x5 mm with irregular margins, solid, coarse calcifications, hypoechoic, min. internal vascularity, peripheral vascularity, anterior adjacent to coarse calc?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Donald Colantino answered

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