Leptin linked with more aggressive thyroid cancer in Middle Eastern region

Friday, October 9, 2009 - 00:28 in Health & Medicine

BOSTON -- Leptin, a molecule linked with obesity, may play a crucial role in predicting poor prognosis from thyroid cancer, at least in the Middle Eastern region of the world, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research Meeting.

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