Dr. Amanda Laird, MD is an endocrine surgeon and Chief of Endocrine Surgery at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is currently licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey and New York. She is affiliated with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Hospital.

In this interview, Dr. Laird reflects on a decade of treating papillary thyroid cancer patients and reports none have died.  In this interview we also explore these questions:

1. Prognosis and what will happen in the long run and quality of life.
2. Surgery complications.
3. Levothyroxine side-effects, including weight gain. 
4. Life after surgery and RAI.
5. What causes thyroid cancer.
6. What time of day to take thyroid replacement medication.
7. What blood tests should be ordered and is fasting necessary prior to thyroid lab work.

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Amanda Laird, MD

American Thyroid Association