Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis
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- 18 August 2016
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 375 (7), 614-617
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1604412
Abstract
Dramatic increases have been seen over recent decades in the reported incidence of thyroid cancer, but owing to new modes of screening, hundreds of thousands of cases may be overdiagnoses — diagnosis of tumors that would not, if left alone, result in symptoms or death.Keywords
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