Nodular Goiter and Thyroid Cancer
- 6 March 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 258 (10), 457-465
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195803062581001
Abstract
THE practice of removing a nodule or multiple nodules from the thyroid gland for the prevention of cancer has been challenged in recent years. The justification for this procedure arose from the concept, held for many years, that a large proportion of thyroid cancers arose from a pre-existing adenoma or from multiple nodular goiters. Regardless of this theory, the immediate practical question in a given patient was whether or not cancer actually existed.Recent publications1 , 2 have tended to minimize the danger of cancer of the thyroid gland in relation to nodular goiter. There is no question that this form of . . .Keywords
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