Raso A M, Dorigo M, Terrando R
Minerva Chir. 1975 Nov 30;30(22):1135-9.
An analysis of correlations between tonsillectomized patients with thyroid cancer and a control group with respect to sex, histological type and blood group did not throw up anything of statistical significance. Of great statistical significance, however, was the age factor in sufferers from malignant cancer, whether or not their tonsils had been removed; in fact tonsillectomized subjects were affected by malignant cancer at a younger age than those who had not undergone the operation. It is concluded that, at the moment of greatest immunological production, the tonsils seem to represent a barrier to the onset of malignant cancer in general, and thyroid types in particular.
对甲状腺癌扁桃体切除患者与对照组在性别、组织学类型和血型方面的相关性分析未发现具有统计学意义的结果。然而，无论扁桃体是否已切除，恶性癌症患者的年龄因素具有极大的统计学意义；事实上，扁桃体切除患者患恶性癌症的年龄比未接受手术的患者更小。得出的结论是，在免疫产生最旺盛的时候，扁桃体总体上似乎是恶性癌症尤其是甲状腺癌发病的一个屏障。
