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Differences between the prescribed dose of radiation in intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and the dose that’s actually delivered may make comparison studies in thyroid cancer difficult to interpret. These findings were reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Breast cancer patients who are overweight have more aggressive disease and are likely to die sooner, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women with locally advanced breast cancer who are overweight have a worst prognosis than their slimmer counterparts, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - After treatment for thyroid cancer, patients may face a slightly increased risk of developing a second primary malignancy elsewhere in the body, research suggests.

Excess bodyweight increases the risk of developing several types of cancer, according to results recently published in The Lancet.

LONDON (Reuters) - Obesity can double the risk of several cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the first time also links being overweight with a number of less common forms of the disease.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have captured an image of an enzyme key to the progression of the deadliest cancers and said on Wednesday their findings may lead to new therapies against not only cancer, but HIV and diabetes too.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with the lung disease cystic fibrosis, the cumulative risk of radiation-induced cancer resulting from routine annual lung computed tomography (CT) is "quite small" -- less than 0.5 percent, a study shows. However, the lack of documented benefit of routine CT scans makes its use questionable, the researchers say.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Thyroid cancers that are clinically insignificant - and may never cause serious disease -- may be treated too aggressively in some patients, according to the author of the 2006 Hayes Martin Lecture, published in the Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

Researchers from the U.K. have reported that imaging with a combination of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) can detect recurrent or metastatic thyroid cancer in patients who have an elevated thyroglobulin level and a negative (131)I whole-body scintigraphy examination (WBS). These results were published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

According to a study of Ukrainians who were under the age of 18 at the time of the Chornobyl accident, risk of thyroid cancer increased with increasing levels of radiation exposure. These results were published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 

Between 1973 and 2002, the incidence of thyroid cancer in the U.S. increased by more than two-fold. Much of this increase appears to be explained by increased detection of small tumors that may never have become symptomatic. These results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

According to the results of a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, pretargeted radioimmunotherapy may improve the survival of patients with advanced, high-risk medullary thyroid cancer.

Long-term follow-up of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors indicates that risk of thyroid cancer remains elevated even long after exposure. These results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

According to an article recently published in the Annals of Surgery, local anesthesia reduces hospital stay and medical costs compared to general anesthesia in patients undergoing a thyroidectomy. Furthermore, local anesthesia produces comparable outcomes to general anesthesia.

Individuals who are destined to develop medullary thyroid cancer as a result of an inherited gene mutation may avoid cancer if their thyroid gland is surgically removed in childhood, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Department of Medicare and Medicaid recently announced the approved coverage of PET scans for the diagnosis of thyroid cancer.

Medullary cancer of the thyroid is a type of cancer affecting the thyroid, a gland located at the base of the throat. This type of cancer can usually be cured by surgery to remove the thyroid gland. However, if the cancer has metastasized (spread from the thyroid to other parts of the body), treatment becomes more challenging. Recently, researchers reported that the use of a radioactive substance, called iodine 131, may hold promise as a safe and effective treatment for prolonging the survival time for persons with metastatic medullary cancer of the thyroid.

Women who undergo radiotherapy (RT) as treatment for breast cancer are not at an increased risk of developing thyroid cancer, according to the results of a recent study published in Cancer.