Dr. Harding has been performing thyroid surgery in Phoenix for 18 years. His passion for this area of General Surgery started with the many intriguing patient cases of thyroid disease he treated in residency at Georgetown University. Over the last 18 years he has performed almost three thousand thyroid operations. The thyroid surgery performed is determined on an individual basis depending on each person's specific problem. This may include a range of problems, which are indeterminate thyroid nodules, large multinodular goiter, hyper functioning thyroid glands, hypo functioning glands with compressive symptoms, as well as thyroid cancer.