Thyroid Cancer For Beginners I hope will be informative for anyone newly diagnosed.  It charts my four-year journey from first finding a lump in my neck, through surgery to remove the thyroid gland and subsequently being given a diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer.  Also, the reader will find out what happens during radioactive Iodine treatment, and how I felt at the time after having to undergo further surgery to remove cancerous lymph nodes some two years later. It includes snippets of family life, and the effect my illness had on my immediate family.

I live in a rather picturesque village near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, U.K, and work as a Medical Secretary.  I have been married to Phil for 28 years, and have two grown-up sons and two granddaughters.  My interests include attending music festivals and concerts, reading autobiographies, and I enjoy going to the gym and walking in the countryside to keep fit.