Prognostic Factors in Thyroid Cancer
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Copyright: © 2012 Chirila M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. In a European population the incidence of thyroid carcinomas varies between 1.75/100000 population for males and 6.38/100000 population for females [1]. The world-wide incidence is in the region of 4/100000population/year with the highest being in Iceland and Hawaii (15/100000/year) [2].
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تاریخ انتشار 2012