By unsatisfactory, do you mean the results were inconclusive or that they were not able to collect sufficient cells to make a determination?
While your nodule is suspicious and merits further evaluation, it is also just barely big enough to meet the size criteria for biopsy. So, the doctors may want to give it a month or two to see if it grows a bit and would make the biopsy more effective (not to mention easier!). Or, it could just be a scheduling issue...it often takes six to eight weeks to get into a specialist.
Yes, a single, hypoechoic nodule with calcifications are worrisome, but I hadn't heard the 96% stat. Remember that thyroid cancer is usually quite slow growing (my surgeon told me he thought my cancerous nodules were probably growing for ten years), so while, yes, you want treatment, there's usually less of a rush than with other cancers. That said, they usually treat men a bit more aggressively than women, so definitely get that second FNA!
While your nodule is suspicious and merits further evaluation, it is also just barely big enough to meet the size criteria for biopsy. So, the doctors may want to give it a month or two to see if it grows a bit and would make the biopsy more effective (not to mention easier!). Or, it could just be a scheduling issue...it often takes six to eight weeks to get into a specialist.
Yes, a single, hypoechoic nodule with calcifications are worrisome, but I hadn't heard the 96% stat. Remember that thyroid cancer is usually quite slow growing (my surgeon told me he thought my cancerous nodules were probably growing for ten years), so while, yes, you want treatment, there's usually less of a rush than with other cancers. That said, they usually treat men a bit more aggressively than women, so definitely get that second FNA!
