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Familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer
E Ron1, R A Kleinerman, V A LiVolsi
1Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Oncology
|January 11, 1991
Abstract:
A 5-fold excess risk of nonmedullary thyroid cancer among close relatives of affected patients was detected in a population-based case-control study of thyroid cancer in Connecticut. The 2 familial cases with early onset and multiple foci suggest genetic susceptibility, whereas the 2 cases with late onset may be related to a common environmental exposure.