Exposure to common flame retardants may raise the risk of papillary thyroid cancer

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/tes-etc033117.php

Public Release: 1-Apr-2017
Exposure to common flame retardants may raise the risk of papillary thyroid cancer
The Endocrine Society

Some flame retardants used in many home products appear to be associated with the most common type of thyroid cancer, papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), according to a new study being presented Saturday at the Endocrine Society's 99th annual meeting, ENDO 2017, in Orlando, Fla.

"Thyroid cancer is the fastest increasing cancer in the U.S., with most of the increase in new cases being papillary thyroid cancer," said the study's lead investigator, Julie Ann Sosa, M.D., MA, professor of surgery and medicine at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. "Recent studies suggest that environmental factors may, in part, be responsible for this increase."

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