Thyroxine promotes lung cancer growth in an orthotopic mouse model
Comment: This is an important pre-clinical study, adding another piece to the connection between levothyroxine and cancer. The finding that T4 promotes tumor growth not by direct cell stimulation, but by driving neoangiogenesis via the integrin αvβ3 receptor, is a critical piece of biologic plausibility. Of course, the major caveat is that this is a […]
