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Seasonal variation in the presentation of thyroid cancer in the USA: an analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Registry

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Smith Giri & Mike G. Martin

  2. Department of Medicine, Reading Health System, 6th Avenue and Spruce St, West Reading, PA, USA

    Ranjan Pathak, Madan Raj Aryal & Paras Karmacharya

  3. Division of Hematology Oncology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Vijaya Raj Bhatt

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Giri, S., Pathak, R., Aryal, M.R. et al. Seasonal variation in the presentation of thyroid cancer in the USA: an analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Registry. Cancer Causes Control 25, 1583–1585 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-014-0453-8

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