US - Study finds higher rates of advanced thyroid cancer in California

[sharon sanders]

Study finds higher rates of advanced thyroid cancer in California

Published December 11, 2015 Reuters


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LOS ANGELES – A new University of California, Los Angeles study has found that in parts of California the rate of thyroid cancer patients with an advanced stage of the disease is well above the national average, prompting research into possible links to farming or radiation.

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022480415010628

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Glyphosate? A problem here is there are only Monsanto studies regarding glyphosate and cancer incidence, and not all the data of these studies are made public. There are no independent studies as far as I know.


Thyroid cancer incidence rate plotted against glyphosate applied to U.S. corn & soy crops
(R=0.988,p≤7.612e-09) along with % GE corn & soy crops (R=0.9377, p≤2.152e-05).