Children and thyroid cancer: Interpreting troubling trends

Amy Y Chen¹, Louise Davies^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
² The VA Outcomes Group, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont.
³ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, New Hampshire.

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Amy Y Chen et al. Cancer. 2019.

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. 2019 Jul 15;125(14):2359-2361.

doi: 10.1002/cncr.32124. Epub 2019 Apr 23.

Amy Y Chen¹, Louise Davies^{2

3}

¹ Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
² The VA Outcomes Group, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont.
³ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, New Hampshire.

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Keywords: incidence; mortality; overdiagnosis; pediatric; thyroid cancer.

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Trends in pediatric thyroid cancer incidence in the United States, 1998-2013.
Bernier MO, Withrow DR, Berrington de Gonzalez A, Lam CJK, Linet MS, Kitahara CM, Shiels MS. Bernier MO, et al. Cancer. 2019 Jul 15;125(14):2497-2505. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32125. Epub 2019 Apr 23. Cancer. 2019. PMID: 31012956 Free PMC article.