Does Hashimotos Thyroiditis Increase Your Risk for Thyroid Cancer?
Does Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Increase Your Risk for Thyroid Cancer? Wednesday November 12, 2008 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)Research just published in the Journal of Surgical Research has confirmed what other research has suggested: that having the autoimmune thyroid disease Hashimoto’s thyroiditis increases the risk of developing thyroid cancer — and in particular, the papillary form of thyroid cancer. The researchers studied almost 1200 patients who had thyroid surgery between 1994 and 2007. Of these patients, more than 200 had Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. The researchers found that: • Papillary thyroid cancer occurred in 29% of the Hashimoto’s thyroiditis patients • 29% of the women with papillary thyroid cancer also had Hashimoto’s thyroiditis • Among women with any type of thyroid malignancy, 95% who had Hashimoto’s had papillary thyroid cancer
