Worldwide #Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of #Overdiagnosis
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1604412#article
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.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1604412#article
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.
The New England Journal of Medicine
Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis | NEJM
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 — diagnos...
thyroid cancer, but owing to new modes of screening, hundreds of thousands of cases
may be overdiagnoses — diagnos...