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Indeterminate thyroid nodule

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Dear nurses

i have posted before about lymph node swelling in neck, had a flexi camera, and today was USS +/- biopsy. The consultant asked if I had any thyroid problems…. So then shared that she could see small cysts on my thyroid and an indeterminate nodule…. But rather than doing a FNA she wants antibiody/antigen bloods done…. As the FNA can alter the blood results. She talked about the nodule possibly being malignant or benign…. Would these blood tests determine this? Thank you 

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    I'm not a nurse, but having had thyroid cancer, one of the things about it is that it is very slow growing. It isn't necessarily something they need to find out right now. So my guess is that they want to do the bloods first, in case doing the FNA first might alter them.

    And thyroid nodules are very common and in the words of my endocrinologist, "nodules are common, most are benign, but obviously, we do have to check."

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    I'm not a nurse, but having had thyroid cancer, one of the things about it is that it is very slow growing. It isn't necessarily something they need to find out right now. So my guess is that they want to do the bloods first, in case doing the FNA first might alter them.

    And thyroid nodules are very common and in the words of my endocrinologist, "nodules are common, most are benign, but obviously, we do have to check."

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