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. 2019 Feb;31(1):144-151.
doi: 10.21147/j.issn.1000-9604.2019.01.09.

Incidence and mortality of thyroid cancer in China, 2008 - 2012

Lingbin Du  1 , Runhua Li  1 , Minghua Ge  1 , Youqing Wang  1 , Huizhang Li  1 , Wanqing Chen  2 , Jie He  2
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Incidence and mortality of thyroid cancer in China, 2008 - 2012

Lingbin Du et al. Chin J Cancer Res. 2019 Feb.

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the incidence and mortality rates of thyroid cancer (TC) in China from 2008 to 2012.

Methods: Incident and death cases of TC were retrieved from the National Central Cancer Registry (NCCR) database collecting from 135 cancer registries in China during 2008-2012. The crude incidence and mortality rates of TC were calculated by area (urban/rural), region (eastern, middle, western), gender and age group (0, 1-4, 5-9, …, 85+). China census in 2000 and world Segi's population were applied for age-standardized rates. Joinpoint (Version 4.6.0.0) model was used for time-trend analysis.

Results: The crude incidence rate of TC was 7.56/100,000 which ranked the seventh in overall cancers. The age-standardized incidence rates by China population (ASIRC) and by World population (ASIRW) were 6.25/100,000 and 5.52/100,000, respectively. The crude mortality of TC in China was 0.52/100,000. The age-standardized mortality rates by Chinese standard population (ASMRC) and by world standard population (ASMRW) were 0.34/100,000 and 0.32/100,000, respectively. Incidence and mortality rates of TC were higher in females than in males and higher in urban areas than in rural areas. Eastern areas had the highest incidence followed by middle and western areas. TC incidence increased dramatically after age of 15 years, then peaked at 14.08/100,000 in the group of 50-54 years and finally decreased sharply after 55 years old. TC mortality increased with age in population, reaching the peak of 5.09/100,000 in sub-population aged 85 years or older. TC incidence increased by 4.73 times from 2.40/100,000 in 2003 to 13.75/100,000 in 2012 with an average annual increase of 20%, while TC mortality only increased slightly around 0.32/100,000 from 0.26/100,000 to 0.36/100,000.

Conclusions: Appropriate targeted prevention, early detection and treatment programs can be carried out to curb the rapid growth trend of TC and control the disease burden.

Keywords: China; Thyroid cancer; cancer registration; incidence; mortality.

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Age-specific incidence of thyroid cancer in urban and rural areas in China, 2008−2012.
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Age-specific incidence of thyroid cancer in different regions in China, 2008−2012.
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Temporal trend of age-standardized incidence (ASIRC) of thyroid cancer in China, 2003−2012.
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Age-specific mortality of thyroid cancer in urban and rural areas in China, 2008−2012.
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Age-specific mortality of thyroid cancer in different regions in China, 2008−2012.
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Temporal trend of age-standardized mortality (ASMRC) of thyroid cancer in China, 2003−2012.
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