If you or someone close to you has just found a neck lump, it might be thyroid cancer. How do you feel? What lies ahead? How will you cope? How will your family cope? What next? What if...? I'm a hospital doctor who specializes in endocrinology and general medicine, and I care for people with thyroid problems. In fact, I've spent most of the last 10 years focusing on thyroid diseases. My Ph.D. research degree looked at thyroid eye disease and my current clinical work includes thyroid out-patient clinics and dedicated thyroid cancer clinics. Then my own bombshell. At forty years of age I was...