This is really unusual, and the first time I have heard of it. Thyroid cancers do not happen in the same manner or for the same reasons that oral cancers like SCC occur. Thyroid cancer is an endocrine system cancer, not an oral cancer, and of the cancers that occur with orals in the neck, laryngeal is the most common and happens for the same reasons as oral. I would want to know that they are absolutely sure of what they have. Many of us, me included, have thyroid nodules that show up on scans. No one has ever suggested to me that these are malignancies and they have remained as they are for over 7 years now.

Of the good news, thyroid related cancers tend to stay localized and even if they involve the thyroid itself, removal of the thyroid is a relatively simple procedure meaning that for the rest of a patient

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