Radiation exposure associated with more aggressive thyroid cancer, worse outcomes

Monday, April 20, 2009 - 18:42 in Health & Medicine

Patients with thyroid cancer who have previously been exposed to radiation -for example, in the workplace, through environmental exposure or for treatment of acne or another condition -appear to have more aggressive disease and tend to have worse outcomes in the long term, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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