Thyroid Cancer
Scientists at University Nova of Lisboa, Faculty of Medical Sciences detail research in thyroid cancer
Published in Cancer Weekly, September 28th, 2010
Scientists discuss in 'The role of common variants of non-homologous end-joining repair genes XRCC4, LIG4 and Ku80 in thyroid cancer risk' new findings in thyroid cancer. According to recent research published in the journal Oncology Reports, "Variations, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA damage repair genes have been pointed out as possible factors to cancer predisposition. Ionizing radiation (IR) induces DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) and is the main recognized risk factor for thyroid cancer."
"However, most of the patients do not show chronic contact with IR and the other factors have non-concordant data. Thus, thyroid cancer could be due...
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