In 1991 my mother was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. A tumor had embedded itself onto part of my mom’s thyroid and had become cancerous. Although the chance of the tumor becoming cancerous is very rare, since the percentage of the tumor becoming cancerous is less then five percent (Statistics 1), my mom happened to be one of the unlucky ones. Almost suddenly without warning my moms life would change for the rest of her life.

She said that she noticed slight swelling and stiffness in her neck that had been constantly harassing her for a couple weeks. This is very common

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