Shauna - posted on 01/07/2009 ( 4 moms have responded )
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My name is Shauna....I have a son (Robert) who was diagnosed Papillary Thyroid Cancer at the age of 10. Next year he will turn 13...and March 2009 will be our 3 yr anniversary. We are still fighting and most likely will be for at least another three years. The reason behind that is because by the time it was found it had spread doctor's said it was aggressive in him for some reason. I found a mass in his neck ( about the size of a softball) and took him to the pediatrician. That day all kinds of test's were done because at first they thought it was an infection. The doctor did a chest x-ray and CT scan and found lesions on his lungs and the lymph nodes in his neck were compressing the arteries in the left side of his neck. The next day his biopsy was done and that was the day we found out that he had cancer. He went from being our healthiest child who had never had more than a sinus infection to the sickest. They ended up removing all of the thyroid and half the lymph nodes in the left side of his neck. The lesions on his lungs is also the thyroid cancer. It was then they told us it would take at least 4 to 6 years to get him to remission. He is a 1 in 1,000,000 case for them. There is no family history of thyroid cancer/thyroid problems and he has not been exposed to high dose's of radiation. So to his doctor's he is a complete mystery....and a challenge!! There are a couple of his doctor's that spoil him rotten too!!! When his treatments are done....he has to stay at the hospital for 3 days when they do the radioactive iodine and the nurses tend to spoil him too....since both peds nurses and the ones on the adult side take care of him...lol
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