Korea's thyroid-cancer "epidemic"--screening and overdiagnosis

N Engl J Med. 2014 Nov 6;371(19):1765-7. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1409841.

Authors

Hyeong Sik Ahn¹, Hyun Jung Kim, H Gilbert Welch

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (H.S.A., H.J.K.); and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, NH (H.G.W.).

PMID: 25372084
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1409841

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Carcinoma / diagnosis
Carcinoma, Papillary
Diagnostic Errors / trends*
Epidemics / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Incidence
Mass Screening / adverse effects*
Mass Screening / trends
Republic of Korea / epidemiology
Thyroid Cancer, Papillary
Thyroid Neoplasms / diagnosis
Thyroid Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Thyroid Neoplasms / mortality