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(World health - EU Monitor 06/11/2009)

New research suggests that living near a volcano puts people at higher risk of getting a type of thyroid cancer. It's not clear how volcanoes might be related to cancer, but researchers suspect that the toxic compounds they produce could play a role. Researchers are also unsure of why thyroid cancer rates are rising around the world. It's possibly because of better detection, but the environment is a potential factor as well, they believe.

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