Increasing incidence of thyroid cancer is due to increased pathologic detection

Simon Grodski; Tani Brown; Stan Sidhu; Anthony Gill; Bruce Robinson; Diana Learoyd; Mark Sywak; Tom Reeve; Leigh Delbridge

doi:10.1016/j.surg.2008.08.023

Increasing incidence of thyroid cancer is due to increased pathologic detection

Simon Grodski, Tani Brown, Stan Sidhu, Anthony Gill, Bruce Robinson, Diana Learoyd, Mark Sywak, Tom Reeve, Leigh Delbridge

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There has been a marked increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer worldwide over recent decades. Patients with retrosternal goiter (RSG) are not picked up generally by common surveillance techniques such as ultrasound. The aim of this project was to study the incidence of thyroid cancer in patients with RSG

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1038 - 1043
Number of pages	6
Journal	Surgery
Volume	144
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2008.08.023
Publication status	Published - 2008

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