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Published on: February 3, 2023
Epidemiology of thyroid cancer
Catherine Hill1, Martin Schlumberger2
1Service de biostatistiques et d'épidémiologie.
Abstract:
Epidemiology of thyroid cancer. There is an important increase in the frequency of thyroid cancer in France, even after taking into account population increase and aging. This increase is essentially due to overdiagnosis. Overdiagnosis is the detection of a cancer which would never have become symptomatic during the lifetime of the person; it transforms a healthy individual into a patient. Autopsy studies show that more than 10% of the population carries cancer cells in their thyroid gland, and that this proportion is the same among men and among women. The greater frequency of thyroid cancer among women is therefore the consequence of their more frequent interactions with clinicians at a younger age, for themself or for their children.
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