We read with great interest the research article of Sahin et al, who concluded that patients with thyroid cancer are not at higher risk of mortality and morbidity from COVID-19 infection compared with patients without a previous history of thyroid cancer [1]. We appreciate the authors' effort in providing more understanding in this particular topic as the existing data is scarce. Despite their interesting findings, the conclusion of the study sounds counter-intuitive as they contradict what have been previously published about the association between cancer in general and increased risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 infection [2,3].

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