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Aldo Lorenzetti M.D, Internal Medicine & Hepatology, Milano - SIMEDET Delegate
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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.