South Korea’s Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” — Turning the Tide

作者：Hyeong Sik Ahn, H. Gilbert Welch · 发表于：New England Journal of Medicine · 年份：2015 · DOI：10.1056/nejmc1507622 · 被引用次数：246 · 研究领域：Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment、Global Cancer Incidence and Screening、Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Since a physician coalition called attention to the extremely high incidence of diagnoses of thyroid cancer in South Korea and proposed that thyroid screening with ultrasonography be discouraged, there has been a marked decrease in the number of thyroid operations.