Bettina Sågbom tells Iltalehte about the new discovery.
Bettina Sågbom’s cancer is treated with radioiodine therapy. Pete Anikari
Yle reporter Bettina Sågbom said in February that she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Now Sågbom says that two small changes have been found in his cancer control.
He was the first to tell about it Ilta-Sanomat.
– There are a couple of spots in the lungs. The doctor said he wouldn’t have paid attention to them, but the radiologist was of the opinion that they should be kept an eye on, Sågbom tells Iltalehte by phone.
The radiologist had told Sågbom that the finding means either a benign change or, alternatively, that a cancer cell has remained in the lungs, which for some reason has not disappeared with the radioiodine.
– No one can know that. You can’t watch it otherwise than simply following along.
Sågbom told the Efter Nio program recently that no more cancer cells have been found. According to Ilta-Sanomi, a couple of weeks after the recording of the program, new control images came, in which the change was found. The control images were taken with computed tomography, i.e. with a different technique than the previous images.
The next control time for computed tomography images is coming at the end of February. Sågbom feels that he is in good hands.
– People are taken care of very well when they are in the treatment pipeline. You don’t really have to do anything yourself, says Sågbom.
Sågbom trusts that everything is done so well that nothing is accidentally missed. He feels that he has recovered well from the operation.
– I haven’t had any nerve damage, which is the case for many, because the shoulder is also operated on, where there are lymph nodes. I have coped very well physically. But psychologically this has been difficult at times, Sågbom describes.