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SAVE YOUR THYROID with Jennifer Holkem, episode 129 If you’ve been part of this community for any length of time, you know where I stand. Thyroid nodule ablation has changed what’s possible for patients who used to be told surgery was their only op…

Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem, Episode 128 | Guest: Dr. Sean Golden, Interventional Radiologist, UW Health If you have a large goiter, you may have been told surgery is your only option. It isn't. Thyroid artery embolization (TAE) is a min…

Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem · Episode 127 If you've been waiting to see whether nsPFA's early results would hold up over time, the wait is over. New durability data shows this non-thermal ablation technology delivering zero nodule regrow…

Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem · Episode 126 You were told you have a thyroid nodule. Maybe it was found during a routine physical, or on a scan for something else entirely. Now you're home with a referral, a radiology report you can't re…

Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem · Episode 125 When an endocrine surgeon who operates on thyroids for a living tells you that thyroid cancer is not urgent — you listen. Dr. Melanie Goldfarb is a fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon, Professo…

Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem · Episode 124 Most patients diagnosed with a thyroid nodule are offered two options: watch it or remove it. Andy Manos, PA-C is on a mission to make sure a third option reaches every community in the country.…

Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem · Episode 123 If your thyroid biopsy came back inconclusive — Bethesda 3 or 4 — there's a good chance someone told you surgery was your next step. For decades, that's exactly what happened. A cytopatholog…

Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem · Episode 122 As thyroid radiofrequency ablation grows rapidly in the United States, one question is becoming increasingly urgent for patients trying to navigate their options: How do you actually know if y…

Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem · Episode 121 When Dr. Eren Berber tells you that robotic thyroid surgery isn't always the better choice, it carries a different weight than when someone else says it. He was one of the first surgeons in th…

Redefining the Indeterminate Diagnosis: Chelsie Paulson’s Fight to Save Her Thyroid For many thyroid patients, a biopsy result is supposed to be the finish line of their anxiety. You endure the needle, you wait for the pathology report, and you bra…

When Emily Saska went in for imaging on a "weird back thing" at age 37, she wasn’t expecting to be pulled off the ceiling by a radiologist. She was a healthy, fit lawyer and a busy mom of two. But the scan had picked up something unrelated: a signif…

Building a New Home for Thyroid Preservation: Dr. Ian Orozco’s Leap into Private Practice For decades, the journey of a thyroid patient felt like a conveyor belt. You discover a nodule, you endure the anxiety of a biopsy, and if that lump is growin…

From the Operating Room to the Office: How One Surgeon is Bringing Non-Surgical Thyroid Care to the Bayou When a patient is told they have a thyroid nodule, the immediate reaction is almost universally the same: panic. The mind instantly races to t…

When Anne Moeller first noticed the lump on her neck back in 2018, she did what most of us do — she covered it up and hoped for the best. A scarf here, a well-angled photograph there. For years, her multinodular goiter was more of an inconvenience t…

Imagine sitting in an exam room and being told your thyroid has to come out. Maybe your nodule has grown too large. Maybe it’s toxic, overproducing hormones and wreaking havoc on your body. Or maybe, like so many patients, you’ve been told the …

Thyroid Nodule Ablation: Why This Paradigm Shift is Here to Stay (NASIT 2026) In 2019, when it became apparent that I had to do something about my thyroid nodules, the medical landscape looked very different than it does today. Finding a doctor to …

In 2016, a routine medical checkup revealed a growth on Tosin’s thyroid. Like many patients with an asymptomatic multinodular goiter, his initial strategy was simply to monitor it. He felt fine, and the idea of removing his thyroid—and committing to…

When I first heard Morley Robbins on a podcast, I’ll be honest: I was offended. I’ve been in the thyroid advocacy space going on seven years, and I thought I had a solid handle on the science. But as I listened to Morley make statements about iron, …

Beyond the Scalpel: How Pressure-Enabled Embolization is Shrinking Massive Goiters For years, patients facing the diagnosis of a massive, compressive goiter were given a single, terrifying path forward. When a thyroid grows so large that it dives …