Marshallese: Thank you, very much (in English). I have a question regarding operation for thyroid cancer or, whatever. I just wonder from the beginning of such operations has it been necessary to make a quite a large incision (evidently horizontal as he was showing on his neck)? that the way thyroid operations have been conducted? Is Is that the pattern, is that the usual and historical way to perform that kind of an operation? Ray: Dr. Bair. Bair: It is. _United States. States. Buck: Ray: Buck: That is exactly the way operations are performed in the I have a friend who had a thyroid cancer in the United He had the same kind of surgery; clear across. Who do you recognize? Well, follow on, I think. Okay. Marshallese: I am not a doctor either so I am not sure of the meaning of these terms, but I have heard these two words used related to the thyroid, that sometimes they are benign and sometimes they are malignant. Now, 7s the same kind of incision used if it is a benign one or is it different if it is benign and if it is malignant, its another kind of incision? I just really want to know about this because I've heard there are two kinds of thyroid. Ray: Cancers in the thyroid. That's certainly true that there are benign, and benign thyroid tumors and malignant tumors. [It is also true that they are varying in size and so in that aspect the incision might be smaller with a smaller tumor. Buck: Is benign smaller than malignant or is that... 3 Dob ,acn™ " 20 a