Obesity is associated with BRAF V600E-mutated thyroid cancer.
CONCLUSIONS: Greater risk of BRAF-mutated papillary thyroid cancers among those with high BMI suggests that the association may not merely reflect greater healthcare service use and indicates an independent relationship between obesity and clinically important thyroid cancer.
PMID: 32228152 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Thyroid Source Type: research
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