BMI, diet and female reproductive factors as risks for thyroid cancer: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND: Thyroid cancer incidence rates have been increasing worldwide but the reason behind this is unclear. Both the increasing use of diagnostic technologies allowing the detection of thyroid cancer and a true increase in thyroid cancer incidence have been proposed. This review assesses the ro...

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Main Authors: Emily Peterson, Prithwish De, Robert Nuttall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3261873?pdf=render