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South Korea’s Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” — Turning the Tide
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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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ahn, H. S., & Welch, H. G.
- Affiliations
- Korea University (KR)
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2015-12-10
- Volume
- 373
- Issue
- 24
- Pages
- 2389-2390
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2333865060
- Cited by
- 240
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 35 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 22.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Keywords
- thyroid cancer, thyroid cancer incidence, thyroid ultrasound, thyroid screening, thyroidectomy, South Korea
- MeSH terms
- Medical Overuse, Thyroid Cancer, Papillary, Carcinoma, Carcinoma, Papillary, Humans, Mass Screening, Thyroid Neoplasms, Ultrasonography, Guidelines as Topic, Republic of Korea, Epidemics
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