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Clinical Trial Results

Summaries of Newsworthy Clinical Trial Results

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Search for Clinical Trials 1
NCI's PDQ® registry of cancer clinical trials.

Thyroid Cancer Home Page 2
NCI's gateway for information about thyroid cancer.
Thyroid Cancer Trial Results

1.  Surgery May Prevent Rare Thyroid Cancer in At-Risk Children 3
(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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1http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/search
2http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/thyroid
3http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/thyroidectomy0905