OBJECTIVES To examine the rates of incidence and fatality in cohorts of patients diagnosed with thyroid cancer from 1975 to 1999. METHODS This study uses National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results data and derives hazard functions in order to examine the fatality in thyroid cancer. RESULTS The study documents forms of rapidly evolving and fatal tumors as well as ...

Screening for prostate cancer may have limited impact on decreasing cancer-related mortality. A major disadvantage is overdiagnosis, whereby lesions are identified that would not become evident during the man’s lifetime if screening had taken place. The present study aims to estimate rate of overdiagnosis using Finnish data from European randomized trial screening. We used 80,149 men a or contr...