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. 2020 May;30(5):651-652.
doi: 10.1089/thy.2020.0185. Epub 2020 Apr 15.

Too Much of a Good Thing? A Cautionary Tale of Thyroid Cancer Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment

Maria Papaleontiou  1 , Megan R Haymart  1
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Too Much of a Good Thing? A Cautionary Tale of Thyroid Cancer Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment

Maria Papaleontiou et al. Thyroid. 2020 May.
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