Your thyroid gland sits in your neck right under the voicebox
I listened to an archived podcast of Brown University Medical School’s Radiology dept. chief Dr. John J Cronan on ReachMD radio this morning and was pleasantly surprised to hear yet another doctor suggesting that cancer is something our bodies can, and do, defeat more often than we realize.
He was discussing a subtype of cancer called Papillary cancer. There are a few other kinds of thyroid cancer but this is far and away the most common. So common, in fact, that nearly 4 out of 10 adults walking around probably have it.
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