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Ecmdj, I had a benign tumour on my thyroid, but a different sort than yours, mine was an adenoma.

The surgery wasn't too bad, but it did affect my vocal chords for a short while, and I had to have speech therapy. My voice is quite a lot lower than it used to be.

But I had no ongoing problems with it, everything went fine. It was about 20 years ago and all is still well, though I only have half a thyroid and an interesting scar on my neck