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HI, Is surgery a only option for papillary thyroid cancer. Is thyroidectomy with lymph nodes removal a major surgery?
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Yes, surgery is the only and best treatment for papillary thyroid cancer. Weather you require a total or hemithroidectomy and lymphnode dissection is required or not, all depends on tumors histology, size,extra thyroidal extension, neck lymphnodal metastasis status and many more. It's not a major surgery and you can get back to work in a week of post surgery.
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Surgery to remove lymph nodes. Find out how and when you have surgery to remove lymph nodes for melanoma. You might have surgery to remove the lymph nodes close to the melanoma if cancer has spread there. This operation is called a lymph node dissection.
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