Genomic 'markers' may head off thousands of thyroid surgeries
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
Doctors at the University of Colorado School of Medicine were concerned recently when they found a nodule in the thyroid of a 64-year-old Colorado man. They extracted cells from the nodule, hoping to determine whether the man had cancer. But the biopsy results were inconclusive.