Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid cancer is the most common cancer in the endocrine system. Thyroid follicular epithelial-derived cancers are papillary, follicular, and anaplastic cancer. Risk factors for differentiated cancers are radiation exposure, and family history. Possible risk factors like occupational and environmental exposures, increased parity, late age at first pregnancy, and hepatitis C-related chronic hepatitis are potential but not proven risk factors. In order to evaluate other potenti...