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Has anyone seen this - It’s Not Cancer: Doctors Reclassify a Thyroid Tumor?

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No more “encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma” - it is now called “noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features,” or NIFTP.

nytimes.com/2016/04/15/heal...

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