[throwaway20222]

When my wife was diagnosed with thyroid cancer our doctor said the same thing was being discussed about reclassifying her diagnosis as well. His assertion was that a lot of thyroid cancers aren’t even discovered until post mortem from another cause of death. Also that the standard treatments are so effective, and in some ways unique to thyroid cancer (radioactive iodine treatment specifically) that the cure rate was very high.

This was a decade ago and while I remember reading up on it at the time, I don’t have any primary research to back this up so take it with a grain of salt.

[BeetleB]

> I don’t have any primary research to back this up so take it with a grain of salt.

Iodized?

[colordrops]

Depends on how advanced. I had a relatively fast growing papillary thyroid cancer that was already 3cm and spread to my lymph nodes. Still relatively "easy" to address, and I've been in remission for 10 years, but if my thyroid was not removed, and I didn't take the radiation treatment, I probably would have been toast long ago.