Thyroid cancer

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Epidemiology

A study of autopsies in Finland found that 36% of subjects had papillary thyroid cancer.[1]

Thyroid cancer may be present 5-10% of patients with thyroid nodules including incidentalomas.[2]

Staging information

Thyroid cancer staging information from the National Cancer Institute's Physician Data Query


References

  1. Harach HR, Franssila KO, Wasenius VM (August 1985). "Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. A "normal" finding in Finland. A systematic autopsy study". Cancer 56 (3): 531–8. PMID 2408737[e]
  2. Tan GH, Gharib H (February 1997). "Thyroid incidentalomas: management approaches to nonpalpable nodules discovered incidentally on thyroid imaging". Ann. Intern. Med. 126 (3): 226–31. PMID 9027275[e]