Changing natural history of differentiated thyroid cancer
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Changing natural history of differentiated thyroid cancer.
The incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing in many countries over the last 30 years. In the USA, the incidence of thyroid cancer increased from 3.6/100.000 people in 1973 to 8.7/100.000 people in 2002 [1]. This phenomenon is mainly due to an increase in the papillary histotype, which raised from 2.7 to 7.7/100.000, a 2.9-fold increase. The same trend has been reported in Europe [2]. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endocrine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1355-008X,1559-0100
DOI: 10.1007/s12020-012-9727-7