Experts Rename Type Of Thyroid Tumor, Saying It Really Is Not Cancer.

reports that “an international panel of doctors has decided that a type of tumor that was classified as a cancer is not a cancer at all.” The panel has “renamed” it, now calling it a “noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features,” or NIFTP, rather than an “encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma.” The panel’s “conclusion, and the data that led to it, was” published in JAMA Oncology. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/health/thyroid-tumor-cancer-reclassification.html?_r=0