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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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“This has likely led to declines in thyroid cancer incidence rates in the Republic of Korea since 2010 as well as in the United States.154,155”
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Korea's Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” — Screening and Overdiagnosis
Ahn, H. S., Kim, H. J., & Welch, H. G. (2014) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejmp1409841 · Cited by 1,238
Self-citationThe Korean guideline for thyroid cancer screening
Yi, K. H., Kim, S. Y., Kim, D., Kim, S. W., Na, D. G., Lee, Y. J., Chung, K. W., Choi, K. S., Koh, Y. W., Kim, W. B., et al. (2015) · Journal of Korean Medical Association · doi:10.5124/jkma.2015.58.4.302 · Cited by 30
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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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