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November 5, 2014New England Journal of Medicine1,248 citations

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

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HAHyeong Sik AhnHKHyun Jung KimHWH. Gilbert Welch

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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.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69dbe79840b636d1dda3c407https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1409841
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