By Carter Higgins, blackdoctor.org
Daymond John, best known for building the clothing empire, FUBU and now years later, starring as one of the sharks on ABC’s reality business pitch show, Shark Tank, has revealed that he suffered from Stage II thyroid cancer.
During an interview on Good Morning America on Wednesday, May 10, he shared that he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer last year and has since undergone treatment.
“I had an extensive physical and they discovered there was a nodule on my thyroid,” the Shark Tank star, 48, told Robin Roberts. “They removed it and it was stage II cancer on my thyroid.”
The thyroid gland is below the thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple) in the front part of the neck. In most people, the thyroid cannot be seen or felt. It is butterfly shaped, with 2 lobes — the right lobe and the left lobe — joined by a narrow isthmus.
Many types of growths and tumors can develop in the thyroid gland. Most of these are benign (non-cancerous) but others are malignant (cancerous), which means they can spread into nearby tissues and to other parts of the body.
