Korea's Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” — Screening and Overdiagnosis
Korea University · Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
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Abstract
In 2011, the rate of thyroid-cancer diagnoses in the Republic of Korea was 15 times that observed in 1993, yet thyroid-cancer mortality remains stable — a combination that suggests that the problem is overdiagnosis attributable to widespread thyroid-cancer screening.
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- Overdiagnosis
- Medicine
- Thyroid cancer
- Thyroid
- Cancer
- Medical diagnosis
- Internal medicine
- Oncology
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Good health and well-being
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