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We cannot ignore the real component of the rise in thyroid cancer incidence
Author(s) -
Goldenberg David
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.32123
Subject(s) - overdiagnosis , thyroid cancer , medicine , cancer , incidence (geometry) , thyroid , physics , optics
Although overdiagnosis certainly occurs, this does not absolve clinicians of the duty to seek the cause of the real rise in thyroid cancer. In this light, factors that may be causing a true increase in thyroid cancer must be examined closely, and which thyroid cancers will behave in an indolent fashion versus an aggressive fashion must be differentiated.