Christina Hall never intended to be on TV but she found herself there in 2013 as the co-star of HGTV's “Flip or Flop” with then-husband Tarek El Moussa.

After a biopsy was later taken, I then received the bad news: it was thyroid cancer. “You had a papillary thyroid cancer. And it is a relatively common cancer,” Dr. Arnold said. HGTV’s Tarek El Moussa is seven years recovered from his thyroid cancer diagnosis and surgery, thanks to a fan. I’ll have to be monitored closely and undergo radioactive iodine therapy, which is a common treatment for papillary thyroid cancer.