Thyroid cancer mortality and incidence: A global overview
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...In contrast, TC mortality trends have been stable or declining (1)....
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...5 Introduction The incidence of thyroid cancer (TC) has been steadily increasing in the past three decades in many countries and regions worldwide (1,2) although to variable extent....
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...Incidence rates, for instance, have increased rapidly in Southern European countries (3,4), the United States (5,6), and, most markedly, in the Republic of Korea (7), but only moderately in Northern European countries and Japan (1,2)....
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...To compare trends in TC incidence rates, we selected seven among the largest high-resource countries from Europe (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, England and Scotland, France, and Italy) and four from other continents (the United States (US), Australia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea) for which: 1) cancer registration dated back at least to the early-1990s; and 2) at least one million person-years of observation was available annually over the most recent period (2003-2007)....
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...The upward incidence trends and changes in the age-specific curves in the last two decades were accompanied by very low and stable TC mortality rates (1,5,6)....
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...The incidence of thyroid cancer has been rising steadily over the past few decades in most countries [1]....
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...Italy has one of the highest incidence rates for thyroid cancer; in 2007, the age-standardized (world population) incidence rate in women was nearly 20 per 100,000 women [1]....
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...[1], using data for thyroid cancer mortality and population size for countries in the period 1970–2012 from the WHO online database [106] estimated age-adjusted death rates from thyroid cancer at all ages in 2000 (1998–2002) and in 2010 (2008– 2012) and percentage changes between these periods (Additional file 1: Table S1)....
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...In most areas of the world, while the incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing over the past few decades, mortality has steadily declined [1]....
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...In most countries, incidence rates have been appreciably increasing over the last few decades,2,3 and if recent trends are maintained, thyroid cancer may become the fourth most common cancer by 2030 in the United States.4 Such an increase is likely due to improved ascertainment, diagnosis and certification, and largely or totally reflects overdiagnosis of indolent disease, i.e., small papillary carcinomas.2,3,5 Conversely, mortality rates have been steadily declining in most areas of the world,6–8 likely due to improved diagnosis, management and treatment of the disease....
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...Thus, the rise in thyroid cancer incidence does not appear to reflect a real increase in the occurrence of this neoplasm, but it is more likely due to a substantial increment in the detection of subclinical thyroid cancers (such as small papillary carcinomas) over the last decades, particularly in young women.(2,4,31) Indeed, diagnostic techniques for thyroid cancer have become more sensitive, particularly through the use of ultrasounds, ultrasoundguided fine-needle aspiration and computed tomography Figure 4....
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...In most countries, incidence rates have been appreciably increasing over the last few decades,(2,3) and if recent trends are maintained, thyroid cancer may become the fourth most common cancer by 2030 in the United States.(4) Such an increase is likely due to improved ascertainment, diagnosis and certification, and largely or totally reflects overdiagnosis of indolent disease, i....
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