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Dana Barnea, MD, on Screening Survivors for Thyroid Cancer

2016 Cancer Survivorship Symposium

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Dana Barnea, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses data that suggest annual palpation of the thyroid is an adequate and safe means of screening childhood and young adult cancer survivors, a population at high risk for this type of cancer (Abstract 254).



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