Korea's Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” — Screening and Overdiagnosis

作者：Hyeong Sik Ahn, Hyun Jung Kim, H. Gilbert Welch · 发表于：New England Journal of Medicine · 年份：2014 · DOI：10.1056/nejmp1409841 · 被引用次数：1254 · 研究领域：Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment、Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging、Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

In 2011, the rate of thyroid-cancer diagnoses in the Republic of Korea was 15 times that observed in 1993, yet thyroid-cancer mortality remains stable — a combination that suggests that the problem is overdiagnosis attributable to widespread thyroid-cancer screening.