‘Epidemic’ of cancer diagnoses attributable to better thyroid imaging

18 Dec 2015


The incidence of thyroid cancers in the United States has nearly tripled in the past 4 decades, especially among women. However, the increase can largely be attributed to detection of low-risk asymptomatic cancers, most discovered with improved imaging.

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