Hi. I had thyroid cancer 6 years ago. It's...well, not exactly what you might be imagining when you hear the word "cancer". They don't generally use ongoing treatments like chemotherapy or radiotherapy and it has a very high survival rate, with the most common forms having survival rates well into the 90s, percentage wise. For young people, under about 50, I think the survival rate of the most common form exceeds 99%.

So it is likely to be basically just a case of having your thyroid removed. This does mean you will need to be on medication for the rest of your life to replace what your thyroid does but most people do fine with that.

And of course, all of that is assuming it is cancer, which it may not be.