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Does anyone know or treat a patient with aggressive thyroid cancer that lived on a navy weapons station? i lived on nuclear base. curious of exposure?

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Dr. Devon Webster answered

Specializes in Medical Oncology

YES!: Radiation exposure is the only known environmental cause of thyroid cancer. The thyroid is very sensitive to radiation. People who have lived near nuclear reactor disasters have high rates of developing thyroid cancer. That being said, the type of thyroid cancer that develops is usually a less-aggressive type called papillary thyroid cancer. Radiation exposure likely contributed to your cancer.

Answered 6/19/2020

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