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Family history of cancer and risk of sporadic differentiated thyroid carcinoma.
Cancer - 1 Mar 2012
Xu Li, Li Guojun, Wei Qingyi, El-Naggar Adel K, Sturgis Erich M
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BACKGROUND: Thyroid cancer incidence in the United States, particularly in women, has increased dramatically since the 1980s. Although the causes of thyroid cancer in most patients remain largely unknown, evidence suggests the existence of an inherited predisposition to development of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). Therefore, the authors explored the association between sporadic DTC and family history of...
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