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Obesity Is Associated with BRAFV600E-Mutated Thyroid Cancer.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Oct 2020
Rahman Sabbir T, Pandeya Nirmala, Neale Rachel E, McLeod Donald S A, Bain Chris J, Baade Peter D, Youl Philippa H, Allison Roger, Leonard Susan, Jordan Susan J
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Background: Thyroid cancer incidence has increased in many parts of the world since the 1980s, as has the prevalence of obesity. Evidence suggests that people with greater body size have higher thyroid cancer risk. However, it is unclear whether this association is causal or is driven by over-diagnosis of indolent cancers, because overweight/obese people use health services more frequently than those of normal...
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