Jody Gelb is a Broadway singer and actress.
Six months ago she was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer, during a doctor’s visit for an unrelated issue. This news sparked immediate research and discovering an alternate path that does not include surgery.
In this episode, the following topics are discussed:
- Broadway musical and tour
- Voice used during work as a performer, singing and acting
- Diagnosed with thyroid cancer while going to the doctor for a minor back strain
- MRI on back lead to discovery of thyroid nodules
- A scare, at one point being told cancer could be medullary
- BETHESDA scale
- Book by Dr. Gilbert Welch
- Incidental findings
- Watch and wait or active surveillance as an option to removing your thyroid
- Conflicting and inconsistent information from healthcare professionals to the patient
- Maximalist or minimalist
- Cultivating a wherewithal to ask questions, even when being told something by a healthcare professional
- Dr. Atul Gawande
- Dr. Henry Marsh
- Choosing active surveillance and then feeling isolated or alienated
- Sharing selectively
- The importance of Google and Twitter and searching ‘papillary thyroid cancer’
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NOTES
- Listen to Doctor Thyroid
- American Thyroid Association
- Regarding Thyroid Cancer, Are You a Minimalist or a Maximalist? with Dr. Michael Tuttle from Sloan Kettering
- Diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer and You Say No to Surgery with Dr. Louise Davies
- Avoiding Thyroid Cancer Surgery, Depending on the Size with Dr. Miyauchi from Kuma Hospital in Kobe, Japan
- 1 in 3 People Die With Thyroid Cancer ? Not From with Dr. Seth Landefeld from UAB
- Rethinking Thyroid Cancer ? When Saying No to Surgery Maybe Best for You with Dr. Allen Ho from Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles
- Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
- Best Time of Day to Take Your Thyroid Medication and Other Questions for the Endocrinologist with Wendy Sacks, M.D. from Cedars Sinai