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Endometriosis Raises Thyroid Cancer Risk

By , About.com GuideJuly 3, 2007

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French researchers, reporting at the recent Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Lyon, France, have found that women with endometriosis are at 33% greater risk of developing cancerous thyroid tumors. Read the article now.

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April 29, 2010 at 7:16 pm
(1) Brandy says:

I had surgery for endometriosis in 2003, in 2008 I was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer. I never would have put the two together. I just had a large cyst removed from my ovary and they said they found large amounts of endometriosis again. This is very interesting.

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