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Podcast: Doctor Thyroid
Episode: Diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer and You Say No to Surgery with Dr. Louise Davies
Description: You have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and contrary to your doctor's advice, you choose to not proceed with surgery.  Is this a patient trend, and how often are patients making this decision? In a qualitative analysis, Dr. Louise Davies reports on the experience of US patients who self-identify as having an over-diagnosed thyroid cancer. How likely is death as result of thyroid cancer?  In a study by H. Harach, he sites that when reviewing random autopsies, thyroid cancer was prevalent in 34% of the cadavers.  Dr. Davies states, if diagnosed with thyroid cancer, impor...