Increase in Thyroid Cancer Puzzles Experts
July 14, 2009 - 1:55pm
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Cancers that had spread also increased in men by 3.7 percent annually and in women by 2.3 percent.
Thyroid cancer can be caused by exposure to radiation but there has been no evidence of increased exposure to radiation among Americans.
"People have looked at background radiation and nothing really has come of that that's very useful. And certainly not useful to us in why there would be a bump in incidence in the last 15 years," Davidson said.
Chen proposed in the study that environmental, dietary and genetic issues be explored.
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