A small study suggests that environmental PFAS exposure may raise the risk for thyroid cancer. But a biostatistician who reviewed the findings is not convinced.
In this cohort study, researchers identified 6146 patients from 17 registries of the SEER Program who had been diagnosed with a first primary cutaneous Merkel cell carcinoma between 2000 and 2018.
Decreased thyroid hormone sensitivity significantly linked with higher risk for papillary thyroid carcinoma in a single-center, retrospective study of 1594 Chinese patients during 2020.