Korea's Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” — Screening and Overdiagnosis

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Authors

H. Gilbert Welch · Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

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.

Topics & Keywords

Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 371, Issue 19, pp. 1765-1767

DOI: 10.1056/nejmp1409841

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