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Thyroid Cancer for Beginners. My story.
I hope my book 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.
If you would like a
copy of my book it can be purchased through my publishers,
Authorhouse(UK)
Authorhouse(USA),
at Amazon.co.uk
or in Waterstones book shops.
It is also available on ebay.
ISBN 978-1-44387-6583-3
Book Content
Chapter 1 The start of it all
Chapter 2 Early years
Chapter 3 Visit to the Endocrinologist & 1st scan
Chapter 4 Visit to the Endocrinologist & 2nd scan
Chapter 5 Appointment with the Oral surgeon
Chapter 6 The day of the Thyroidectomy
Chapter 7 The aftermath of the Thyroidectomy
Chapter 8 The second day after surgery
Chapter 9 Home again
Chapter 10 Three days after surgery and beyond
Chapter 11 The first Radioactive Iodine treatment
Chapter 12 Results of treatment and 1st gamma scan
Chapter 13 New job, and visit to the eye clinic
Chapter 14 Happy times
Chapter 15 Second Radioactive Iodine treatment
Chapter 16 All clear?
Chapter 17 Empty nest
Chapter 18 Secondaries
Chapter 19 Meniscectomy of the left jaw
Chapter 20 Third Radioactive Iodine treatment
Chapter 21 Aftermath of treatment
Chapter 22 Result of CT scan
Chapter 23 Neck dissection
Chapter 24 I made it to 50 against all odds!
Chapter 25 2008
Chapter 26 One year after the neck dissection
Chapter 27 Epilogue
To Matt and Anna on their wedding day
About the author
Book Reviews
This was a very frank and honest book. It manages to
mix the technical with the practical while at the same
time conveying how the diagnosis affects the whole
family. This gives the book a very human touch that
makes it very readable.
Reviewed by Diane Brookes (Kent, UK) 15th May 2009
Reading this book was like sitting down with a nice
cuppa and a knowing friend who explained just what
happens and what its like to have thyroid cancer in a
really easy to grasp way. She doesn't shy away from the
messy stuff, but at the same time includes all the
technical jargon and information one needs to know. She
shares her journey from before the diagnosis through the
sometimes bleak and exhausting years of treatment in
such an upbeat way that anyone involved with a recent
diagnosis would feel empowered and more optimistic
having read it. It would be a good book to give to
worried family members; it takes the fear out of the
subject as she writes with a gentle loving humour about
even the most scary aspects.
Reviewed by Clare Higson (Suffolk, UK) 11th August 2009
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