Mina Dehghani
1 
, Narges Esmaeili
2, Maryam Khosravian
3, Hamid Nasri
4* 1 School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
2 Faculty of Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Clinic for Internal Medicine, Martin-Luther University Halle/Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
4 Department of Nephrology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education
Various studies suggest an increased possibility of malignancy in primary hyperparathyroidism compared to the normal individuals which leads to increase mortality and morbidity; since, the location of the tumors is different. Several studies showing that the association between primary hyperparathyroidism and malignancy is more general in nature than emerge of a specific tumor, an issue which needs more investigations.
Please cite this paper as: Dehghani M, Esmaeili N, Khosravian M, Nasri H. Possible cancer enhancement impact of parathyroid hormone excess. J Parathyr Dis. 2023;11:e11195. doi: 10.34172/jpd.2023.11195.