The changing epidemiology of thyroid cancer

Thyroid cancer incidence is increasing worldwide. Causes are highly debated.Thyroid cancer increase has been associated to socioeconomic status, better access to healthcare and rising use of thyroid imaging. Therefore, the rise could be apparent because of the useless identification of a large reservoir of subclinical papillary lesions that will never affect patient health (overdiagnosis).However, not all epidemiological and clinical data...