Dr. Kepal Patel
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It's easy to feel.
It's easy to feel.
It's easy to feel.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
Totally, but you have to make sure it's a benign node, not a cancerous node, right? So we do see patients who will present the lymph node lower in the neck and it's big. And those patients do worry me and scare me because that's probably a cancer that's spread, right? And so we'll probably stick a needle in it and see what's going on.
Totally, but you have to make sure it's a benign node, not a cancerous node, right? So we do see patients who will present the lymph node lower in the neck and it's big. And those patients do worry me and scare me because that's probably a cancer that's spread, right? And so we'll probably stick a needle in it and see what's going on.
Totally, but you have to make sure it's a benign node, not a cancerous node, right? So we do see patients who will present the lymph node lower in the neck and it's big. And those patients do worry me and scare me because that's probably a cancer that's spread, right? And so we'll probably stick a needle in it and see what's going on.
So the reason why the prognosis for papillary thyroid cancer is so great and the patients do so well is because once we take out their cancer, we can actually treat them with the iodine. So even if the cancer is spread to the lungs, to the bones, you give them the radioactive iodine, the iodine will get into those cells and kill them.
So the reason why the prognosis for papillary thyroid cancer is so great and the patients do so well is because once we take out their cancer, we can actually treat them with the iodine. So even if the cancer is spread to the lungs, to the bones, you give them the radioactive iodine, the iodine will get into those cells and kill them.
So the reason why the prognosis for papillary thyroid cancer is so great and the patients do so well is because once we take out their cancer, we can actually treat them with the iodine. So even if the cancer is spread to the lungs, to the bones, you give them the radioactive iodine, the iodine will get into those cells and kill them.
And so that's why the prognosis for thyroid cancer remains excellent. That's what I tell my patients. I'm like, yeah, you know, even if you do have cancer that spread, we can still treat you and you should still do very well.
And so that's why the prognosis for thyroid cancer remains excellent. That's what I tell my patients. I'm like, yeah, you know, even if you do have cancer that spread, we can still treat you and you should still do very well.
And so that's why the prognosis for thyroid cancer remains excellent. That's what I tell my patients. I'm like, yeah, you know, even if you do have cancer that spread, we can still treat you and you should still do very well.
This is systemic. This is better than any chemotherapy out there. Yeah. This specifically targets thyroid cancer cells and kills them.
This is systemic. This is better than any chemotherapy out there. Yeah. This specifically targets thyroid cancer cells and kills them.
This is systemic. This is better than any chemotherapy out there. Yeah. This specifically targets thyroid cancer cells and kills them.
I know.
I know.