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Horm Metab Res 2017; 49(03): 229-231
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-103572
Letter to the Editor
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

How Can Environmental Factors Contribute to the Incidence of Thyroid Cancer?

Christian A. Koch
1   Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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received 03 February 2017

accepted 09 February 2017

Publication Date:
28 March 2017 (online)

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Key words

thyroid cancer - radiation - endocrine disrupting chemicals - pollution - BRAF
 

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