Cancer risk in patients hospitalised for Graves’ disease: a population-based cohort study in Sweden
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- 30 March 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in British Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 102 (9), 1397-1399
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6605624
Abstract
The possibility of an association of Graves’ disease (GD) with subsequent cancers raised by certain studies. Using a database on 18 156 hospitalised GD patients, subsequent cancers were ascertained. Increased risks of thyroid and parathyroid tumours were limited to the early follow-up period, which is probably a surveillance bias. Cancer sites with observed excess included the mouth and breast, in contrast to decreased risks of colon cancer, melanoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Increased subsequent cancers in GD patients appeared to be balanced by decreased risks at other sites; chance cannot be excluded.Keywords
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