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Just last week, thyroid tumors were reclassified and are no longer considered cancer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/health/thyroid-tumor-cance...]

From the article 'Instead of calling it “encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma,” they now call it “noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features,” or NIFTP. The word “carcinoma” is gone.'.

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Great link, thanks. This affects me directly: I had one of these thyroid nodules found recently, but they've decided it's small and nothing to worry much about, so they're just going to keep an eye on it.

From your link: "At major medical centers, many patients with encapsulated thyroid tumors are already being treated less aggressively. But, thyroid experts say, that is not the norm in the rest of the country and the rest of the world."

I guess it's a good thing I was sent to a major medical center (one large enough where my oncologist specializes only in thyroids) or else I might be getting part of my thyroid cut out for no good reason now....

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