Thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy positively correlates with increased diagnosis of thyroid cancer in South Korean patients
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- 作者：Yoon Jae Cho ; Do Young Kim ; Eun-Cheol Park ; Kyu-Tae Han
- 关键词：Thyroid cancer ; Biopsy ; Fine ; needle ; Health Services Accessibility ; Overdiagnosis
- 刊名：BMC Cancer
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：908KB
- 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Surgical Oncology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Biomedicine, general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2407
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundThe incidence of thyroid cancer among South Koreans is more than 10-fold greater than its incidence in other countries, although its associated mortality rate is similar. Amidst concerns regarding the over-diagnosis of thyroid cancer related to gradually expanded medical testing in South Korea, we hypothesized that the number of thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsies has led to increased diagnosis of thyroid cancer.