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Podcast: Doctor Thyroid
Episode: 35: Rethinking Thyroid Cancer - When Saying No to Surgery Maybe Best for You with Dr. Allen Ho from Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles
Description: Weighing treatment options for thyroid cancer, with deep consideration for the patient's lifestyle, could become the new norm in assessing whether surgery is the best path. Dr. Allen Ho states, "if a patient is a ballerina or an opera singer, or any other profession that could be jeopardized due to undesired consequences of thyroid cancer surgery, then the best treatment path maybe active surveillance." Undesired consequences of thyroid cancer surgery could be vocal cord paralysis, damage to the parathyroid glands resulting in calcium deficiencies, excessive bleeding or formation of a major blood clot in the neck, shoulder...