Follow up closely, and remove it if become cancerous

Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease, a disorder in which the immune system turns against the body's own tissues. In people with Hashimoto's, the immune system attacks the thyroid -- which might causes thyroid cancer after very long time (more than 10 - 25 years, for example). Part of your immune system, the lymph cell travels into your thyroid, and attacks your thyroid, that why your nodule's FNA result shows no thyroid cell, instead of, only "mild atypical lymph cells" -- which means it's lymph nodule that's increasing size. The normal body/organ cells are "typical" -- which specific cell characters -- for example, the muscle cell is very different with nerve cell. But "atypical" cell means cancerous/pre-cancerous cell -- which means the cell has less typical characters of mature cell.

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• 非常感谢回答。请问应该间隔多长时间follow up? 三个月会不会太长呢？还有您建议做一个PET CT吗？ -maoxing2018- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/03/2018 postreply 18:33:21

• 还有我现在这种情况，可能的是甲状腺癌，还是淋巴瘤，还是都有可能啊？ -maoxing2018- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/03/2018 postreply 18:35:46