Higher thyroid hormone levels are associated with increased cancer risk. Each unit of free thyroxine (FT4) was associated with a 42% increase in risk for any solid cancer. It was also linked to lung and breast cancer. Higher FT4 levels were associated with significantly higher levels of solid, lung and breast cancer risk.
Factors such as age, sex, socioeconomic status, alcohol consumption, smoking, body-mass index, hypertension, diabetes and serum cholesterol were accounted for, and no association was found between thyroid stimulating hormone and any type of cancer.
There are a few molecular pathways that could provide an explanation to the link between thyroid hormones and cancer, these include :
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