'Cancer was no longer important,' says Mélodie Cyr, who had surgery for a nodule on her thyroid. 'They were putting all the emphasis on COVID, however, cancer was still happening.'When she found out she needed a biopsy to assess whether a nodule on her thyroid was cancerous, Mélodie Cyr had a unique perspective: as a cancer researcher, she understood the risks she was facing in brutal, ugly, disturbing detail.
Cyr and her doctor were able to monitor the nodule with ultrasounds, so they did have a sense of its growth, but the restrictions meant they couldn’t do anything about it. “I did a lot of research,” she says. “I was looking at a lot of published data to see, how was it diagnosed? What is the scoring? How is it treated? That kind of drove me a little wild.”
“I didn’t know if I was living with cancer or not, so that really stopped me from doing a lot of things that I would have done,” she says. She didn’t feel safe seeing many of her friends. She was given the option of doing another biopsy, or going ahead with the surgery to remove the part of the thyroid with the nodule. The decision was not an easy one — which surprised her.
healthing_ca cancersociety I'm sorry this was her experience. I waited in SK for the same process (which I found uncomfortable but not as painful as described) and then waited for surgery then for treatment...but my doctors kept in contact, kept the ball rolling and gave me excellent care, mid pandemic.