Thyroid Nodule Size and Cancer
Home of Kyle J. Norton for The Better of Living & Living Health Thyroid hormone (triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4)), produced by the thyroid gland, plays an important role in regulation of metabolism, including directly boosts energy metabolism and triggers rapid protein synthesis and regulates mitochondrial gene transcription, etc. Iodine is necessary for the production of T3 and T4, deficiency of Iodine can lead to enlarge thyroid grand and goitre.
Thyroid Nodule Size and CancerIn the study to evaluate the association of nodule size upon cancer risk in a retrospective cohort analysis at an academic hospital with 4955 consecutive patients evaluated between 1995 and 2009, found that Increasing thyroid nodule size impacts cancer risk in a nonlinear fashion. A threshold is detected at 2.0 cm, beyond which cancer risk is unchanged. However, the risk of follicular carcinomas and other rare thyroid malignancies increases as nodules enlarge(60).
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(60) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23275525 http://medicaladvisorjournals.blogspot.com
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