Tanya has cancer

Metastatic Papillary Thyroid cancer to be specific.

Here is what we know as of now:

• There are usually no real symptoms of this type of cancer
• This is generally a highly treatable form of cancer 
• The survival rate is high (as Tanya’s Endocrinologist said “This is something you generally die with, not of”)
• Tanya will need surgery to remove her thyroid and will also have the lymph nodes on the right side of her neck removed
• Tanya will undergo radioactive iodine treatment at some point shortly after the surgery
• This cancer does not generally require chemotherapy or radiation