Overdiagnosis and screening for thyroid cancer in Korea

JH Lee, SW Shin - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
In Korea, the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased every year by about 25% for the past
10 years. 1 In 2011, 40 568 new cases of thyroid cancer were reported making this the most …

[HTML][HTML] Global trends in thyroid cancer incidence and the impact of overdiagnosis

M Li, L Dal Maso, S Vaccarella - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2020 - thelancet.com
In recent decades, the incidence of thyroid cancer in several affluent countries has markedly
increased, 1, 2 although mortality from thyroid cancer has remained relatively low and stable …

Challenges in investigating risk factors for thyroid cancer

S Vaccarella, L Dal Maso - The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2021 - thelancet.com
Thyroid cancer has become the fifth most commonly diagnosed cancer in adult women
worldwide, and the second most common in women older than 50 years. 1 The rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer in China

M Li, R Zheng, L Dal Maso, S Zhang, W Wei… - The Lancet Diabetes & …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Globally, the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased substantially in the past three
decades, 1 particularly among young adults and even in adolescents, 2 whereas mortality …

Global or Gaelic epidemic of hypothyroidism?

P Laurberg - The Lancet, 2005 - thelancet.com
Denmark (figure). 2 Most cases of hypothyroidism are caused by gradual thyroid failure,
which is presumably of autoimmune origin. Once clinical suspicion has been raised …

Thyroid cancer incidence in children and adolescents

L Lamartina, S Leboulleux… - The Lancet Diabetes & …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Clinically detected thyroid cancer is rare in children, with one to three cases per 1 million
children per year. The disease—a papillary carcinoma in most cases—is frequently more …

A worldwide journey of thyroid cancer incidence centred on tumour histology

ED Rossi, L Pantanowitz, JL Hornick - The Lancet Diabetes & …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Over the past three decades, the incidence of thyroid carcinoma has been increasing
globally. Data from 2006 to 2012 indicate an annual incidence rate of thyroid cancer of …

Global thyroid estimates in 2020

L Lamartina, S Leboulleux, I Borget… - The Lancet Diabetes & …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Pizzato and colleagues'4 used the GLOBOCAN database to estimate age-standardised
incidence and mortality rates for 2020 in 185 countries or territories by sex and 18 age …

[PDF][PDF] Time to reconsider thyroid cancer screening in Fukushima

K Shibuya, S Gilmour, A Oshima - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
The excellent Lancet Series on the cancer wars returned to the term cancer war as outlined
by President Nixon in 1971. Cancer treatment with extensive surgery, radiation therapy from …

Thyroid carcinoma

SI Sherma - The Lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
Thyroid carcinomas are fairly uncommon and include disease types that range from indolent
localised papillary carcinomas to the fulminant and lethal anaplastic disease. Several …