Endocrine Abstracts

Exposure to ionising radiation, changing levels of iodine nutrition, and increased pathologic diagnosis of clinically unimportant thyroid neoplasm have all been proposed as explanations for a world-wide rise in the incidence of thyroid carcinoma over the past 6 decades. Yakutia is geographically an area of endemic iodine deficiency (the population is about 1 million). According to previous research in the endemic areas there are more occasions of follicular thyroid cancer, whe...