It’s not cancer: doctors reclassify a thyroid tumour

21 Apr 2016


Reporting in JAMA Oncology, researchers have reclassified “encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma,” to “noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features,” or NIFTP. The word “carcinoma” is gone.

New York Times


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