Thyroid hormones are linked to cancer, and remarkably this is one area where being hypothyroid is helpful

[diogenes]

This paper describes the relation between cancer and thyroid function. Remarkably, being a longterm hypothyroid patient lowers the chance of getting some cancers.

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Hypothyroidism correlates with favourable survival prognosis in patients with brain metastatic cancer

August 2020 European Journal of Cancer 135:150-158

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2020.05.011

LicenseCC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Anna Sophie Berghoff, Christoph Wippel, Angelika M. Starzer ,Matthias Preusser et al

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Link to open access full paper:

ejcancer.com/article/S0959-...

[UrsaP]

Wow something positive for hypos.

[LindaC]

Every cloud and all that 💁 - still, it's good news.

[penny]

Good question, Scrumbler.; just what I was thinking.