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A needle is put into the thyroid and cells are taken out. The cells are examined under a microscope. You may feel minor pain or get a bruise. A needle aspiration can usually tell whether there is cancer in the nodule. But in about 20 percent of cases the result is unhelpful, and people need to have another biopsy or surgery.
