Natural Society, By: Paul Fassa, 01/08/2014
There has been a surge of thyroid gland surgeries or thyroidectomies for cancer concerns, but how many were really necessary? The ultrasound guided fine needle biopsy is usually not conclusive about any small tumors or growths found in the thyroid gland. These tests are good at finding nodules in the thyroid, but inconclusive regarding malignancy. Unnecessary thyroid removals is often the end result.
Absolute certainty of malignancy was not determined until after the thyroid is partially or wholly removed. This forces the patient on a lifetime of synthetic thyroid hormones that were normally provided by the intact thyroid gland. And many times there was no cancer at all.
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