Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis
Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis
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United States: Massachusetts Medical Society
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English
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United States: Massachusetts Medical Society
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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.
Several reports have described dramatic increases over recent decades in the...
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Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1812891349
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1812891349
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0028-4793
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1533-4406
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10.1056/NEJMp1604412
