thyroid neoplasms/brassica

French Polynesia has one of the world's highest thyroid cancer incidence rates. A case-control study among native residents of French Polynesia included 229 cases of differentiated thyroid cancer diagnosed between 1979 and 2004, and 371 population controls. Dietary patterns and goitrogenic food

Thyroid neoplasia can result from many different causes. These include low iodine diets, subtotal thyroidectomy, radioactive iodine, natural goitrogens such as rape seed and cabbage, chemotherapeutic agents such as sulfathiazole, and pesticides such as amitrole. All of these appear to act through

BACKGROUND Thyroid nodules are often found in clinical practice. General population prevalence is about 4%, whereas in women it is over 6%. The basic disorder of cell kinetics of thyroid tumors is inappropriate growth response to corresponding thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)