Do You Really Need Thyroid Surgery? 3 Patient Cases | Weill Cornell Surgeons

If you've been diagnosed with a thyroid nodule or thyroid cancer, the first option you probably heard about was surgery. Two surgeons from Weill Cornell Medicine want you to know that surgery isn't always the only answer, and that it hasn't been for years.

Dr. Thomas Fahey and Dr. Brendan Finnerty have spent nearly a decade building a high-volume thyroid ablation program. They treat benign nodules, toxic nodules, and carefully selected thyroid cancers without surgery. Many of their patients never heard about ablation from their own doctors. They found it themselves.

In this episode, we walk through three patient cases we see in this community all the time: a large benign nodule causing pressure symptoms, a toxic nodule that the patient's own doctors disagree about, and an indeterminate nodule where surgery was offered but molecular testing never was.

Dr. Thomas Fahey is Chief of Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery and Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he has practiced for nearly three decades. He played an instrumental role in developing molecular testing for indeterminate thyroid nodules. As surgery program director, he has built pathways for surgical residents to learn interventional techniques like ablation.

Dr. Brendan Finnerty is Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of Interventional Endocrine Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. He performs radiofrequency and ethanol ablation for carefully selected nodules, cysts, and cancers. He also leads research into the mechanisms of tumor growth and metastasis.

🔗 Contact Dr. Fahey & Dr. Finnerty at Weill Cornell Medicine:

Request an appointment: https://weillcornell.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VFFcsKx0Z3RvEh

Phone: 646-962-5250

Dr. Fahey: tjfahey@med.cornell.edu

Dr. Finnerty: bmf9002@med.cornell.edu

🎥 Related: Indeterminate nodules & molecular testing with Dr. Joshua Klopper:

https://youtu.be/cP29-7nQu0M?si=hMvDDKaYqJh_B7Je

This episode is sponsored by Cambridge Interventional.

https://www.cambridgeinterventional.com/

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