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Thyroid Cancer
Surgical Oncology · Oncology
Moderate
Severity
Moderately common — one of the more frequently diagnosed endocrine cancers, more common in women, generally with a favorable prognosis
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Surgical Oncology
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1The exact cause is often unclear
- 2but risk factors include prior exposure to radiation
- 3particularly during childhood
- 4a family history of thyroid cancer or certain inherited genetic syndromes such as multiple endocrine neoplasia
- 5and chronic iodine deficiency or excess. Certain genetic mutations that drive uncontrolled growth of thyroid cells underlie the disease
- 6with some subtypes having a stronger hereditary component than others.
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