Korea's Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” — Screening and Overdiagnosis

作者: Hyeong Sik Ahn , Hyun Jung Kim , H Gilbert Welch , None

DOI: 10.1056/NEJMP1409841

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摘要: In 2011, the rate of thyroid-cancer diagnoses in Republic Korea was 15 times that observed 1993, yet mortality remains stable — a combination suggests problem is overdiagnosis attributable to widespread screening.

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