Background: The increases in thyroid cancer overall and in the predominant papillary type
have been well documented, but trends for follicular thyroid cancer, a less common but more …

Background: The incidence of papillary thyroid cancer has been reported to be increasing
during the past three decades, with a 65–126% increase between 1975 and 2004. The …

Background The increase in incidence of thyroid cancer during the last decades without
concomitant rise in mortality may reflect the growing detection of indolent forms of thyroid …

Objective Obesity is a well-known risk factor for many cancers, including those of the
esophagus, colon, kidney, breast, and skin. However, there are few reports on the …

Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer: A Review of the National Cancer Database, 2000-2013 Page 1
Received 10/04/2018 Review began 10/08/2018 Review ended 02/12/2019 Published …

Increased body size and physical inactivity are positively related to risk of several cancers,
but only few epidemiologic studies have investigated body‐mass index (BMI) and physical …

Background: Thyroid cancer incidence rates have increased worldwide for decades,
although more for papillary carcinomas than other types and more for females than males …

Context: Thyroid cancer predominately affects women, carries a worse prognosis in older
age, and may have higher mortality in men. Superimposed on these observations is the fact …

Background We evaluated the association of central versus overall adiposity on levels of
thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), free triiodothyronine (fT3), and free thyroxine (fT4) …

Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most common endocrine malignancy worldwide and its incidence
has increased dramatically in recent years. In parallel, the prevalence of overweight and …