Changes in Trends in Thyroid Cancer Incidence in the United States, 1992 to 2016

Ann E Powers; Andrea R Marcadis; Mark Lee; Luc G T Morris; Jennifer L Marti

doi:10.1001/jama.2019.18528

Changes in Trends in Thyroid Cancer Incidence in the United States, 1992 to 2016

JAMA. 2019 Dec 24;322(24):2440-2441. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.18528.

Authors

Ann E Powers¹, Andrea R Marcadis², Mark Lee³, Luc G T Morris², Jennifer L Marti³

Affiliations

¹ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
² Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
³ Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.

Abstract

This study uses Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry data to describe trends in thyroid cancer incidence overall and by tumor size in the United States from 1992 to 2016.

MeSH terms

Humans
Incidence
SEER Program
Thyroid Neoplasms / epidemiology*
United States / epidemiology

Abstract

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