Increased Risk of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in CD (2006)

[aklap]

Increased Risk of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Celiac Disease.

[gluten-free-mike]

Lovely - never a shortage of related issues it seems.

I have to wonder what the mechanism behind this increased risk is. Since everyone in the study was on a GF diet, and still had increased risk, it seems that the cause must stem from one or more of:

a) damage done to one's body prior to going GF

b) damage from lack of something in a "normal" diet that protects against this condition

c) damage done from an overabundance of something in our GF diets that others would not normally experience

Hopefully they will get a clearer picture of what the root cause is, so we can better plan and avoid the issue (if possible).
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Mike
GF Since 2003
Severe weakness for Desserts

[Fidissimus]

...or perhaps something to do with our malfunctioning autoimmune systems in general. I wish they'd given more info on what they thought was the root cause of the increased risk.
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Cheers!
Jenn

GF BD: Feb. 2001
Free of wheat, barley, rye, oats, dairy, eggs, almonds, pineapple and brewers yeast.
http://graindamaged.blogspot.com/

[aklap]

It probably will in the full text article - which you probably have to pay to get. This is abstract is out ahead of the article too.
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[gluten-free-mike]

A lot of those scientific papers / journals do that where they only offer abstracts. Now, if you happen to have a friend in academia, many colleges and universities have access to some of those repositories for both their students and faculty. The thing I find most annoying is that there is a good chance that we, the taxpayers, probably funded (in part or in whole) quite a few of the studies whose findings we are later supposed to pay to gain access to.
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Mike
GF Since 2003
Severe weakness for Desserts

[annelb]

I think one reason there is increased incidence of other diseases when one has CD is that there is no diagnosis before villous atrophy occurs. How much damage is done to the whole body by that time The GF diet does not reverse all damage when there have been years of insult to the body. This article (go to www.pubmed.gov and search for 16810593. For some reason I cannot put the link here.) The article Endoscopic and histological findings in the duodenum of adults with celiac disease before and after changing to a gluten-free diet: a 2-year prospective study. says that people who were diagnosed at age 30 and above had very little healing of the villi after 24 months. If the villi are not healing, I doubt that the rest of the body is healing either.

Another thought - CD is found in about 1% of the population no matter what age group is tested. That seems to indicate that adults have had CD all their life but it was "triggered" by something? IMHO, CD was probably simmering all along until severe symptoms appeared.

The statistic of 1:133 have CD is for asymptomatic people. I wonder if anyone is following those asymptomatic people who refused a GF diet to see if they remain asymptomatic forever. Or will something "trigger" their CD down the line. For people who have symptoms the occurrance is 1:56.

I think Dr. Fine is right when he says diagnosis must occur "Before the Villi are Gone". https://www.enterolab.com/StaticPages/EarlyDiagnosis.htm

I am 63 and have been GF for 3 years. I was diagnosed through enterolab so I don't know what my villi were doing.

Anne