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Review
. 2019 Mar;48(1):23-35.
doi: 10.1016/j.ecl.2018.10.002. Epub 2018 Dec 23.

Evolving Understanding of the Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer

Carolyn Dacey Seib  1 , Julie Ann Sosa  2
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Review

Evolving Understanding of the Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer

Carolyn Dacey Seib et al. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2019 Mar.

Abstract

The incidence of thyroid cancer worldwide has increased significantly over the past 3 decades, due predominantly to an increase in papillary thyroid cancer. Although most of these cancers are small and localized, population-based studies have documented a significant increase in thyroid cancers of all sizes and stages, in addition to incidence-based mortality for papillary thyroid cancer. This suggests that the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer is due in large part to increasing surveillance and overdiagnosis, but that there also appears to be a true increase in new cases of thyroid cancer.

Keywords: Environmental exposure; Epidemiology; Incidence; Papillary thyroid cancer; Thyroid cancer.

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