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Synchronous Triplanar Reconstruction Integrated with Color Doppler Mapping for Precise and Rapid Localization of Thyroid Lesions
Published on: February 9, 2024
Increasing detection and increasing incidence in thyroid cancer
Stephen F Hall1, Hugh Walker, Robert Siemens
1Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Queen's Cancer Research Institute, 10 Stuart Street, Level 2, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. sfh@queensu.ca
Background:
It has been proposed that the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer is due to increasing detection.
Methods:
Using administrative data, we compare by year from 1993 to 2006, the rates of diagnostic imaging tests of the neck (computed axial tomography--CT, magnetic resonance imaging--MRI, and non-obstetrical ultrasound--US) to the incidence of thyroid cancer for the population of the Province of Ontario Canada.
Results:
Women and men have different rates of tests, and those rates reflect the rates of new diagnoses of thyroid cancer.
Conclusions:
The rising incidence of thyroid disease in women is associated with increasing numbers of diagnostic imaging tests.
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