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1.  Surgery May Prevent Rare Thyroid Cancer in At-Risk Children
(Posted: 09/28/2005) - Forty-four of 50 children who carried a genetic mutation that causes a rare type of thyroid cancer, but who had no symptoms of the disease, remained disease-free five or more years after preventive surgery to remove the thyroid gland, according to the Sept. 15, 2005, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.


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