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Regarding the manuscript entitled “Association of Radioactive Iodine Treatment With Cancer Mortality in Patients With Hyperthyroidism”

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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 81771875 and 81571714) and the Medicine and Technology Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (grant number 2016-I2M-2-006).

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Zhang, X., Shan, G., Liu, Q. et al. Regarding the manuscript entitled “Association of Radioactive Iodine Treatment With Cancer Mortality in Patients With Hyperthyroidism”. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 46, 2410–2411 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-04522-1

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