Thyroid Cancer After Childhood Cancer: Small Tumors, Surprising Spread, Hidden Genes
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For the growing population of children who survive a first cancer diagnosis, the battle is often assumed to be over once remission is achieved. Yet a new study from Beijing Children’s Hospital is drawing attention to a quieter, slower-moving threat that can emerge years later: second primary thyroid cancer, or SPTC, a malignancy that arises in the thyroid gland of a patient who has already beaten another childhood cancer.