Children and thyroid cancer: Interpreting troubling trends. Issue 14 (23rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Amy Y.; Davies, Louise
• Is Part Of: Cancer. Volume 125:Issue 14(2019)
• Page Start: 2359
• Page End: 2361
• Publication Date: 2019-04-23
• Subjects: incidence -- mortality -- overdiagnosis -- pediatric -- thyroid cancer; Cancer -- Periodicals; Cancer -- Cytopathology -- Periodicals; 616.99405
• DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32124
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0008-543X

Abstract

Abstract : In this issue, Bernier et al assert that their findings provide evidence that there is a true increase in the incidence of pediatric thyroid cancer, and appear to be working to extend their findings from 2017, in which they came to similar conclusions for the adult population. Although the authors of this editorial agree that a true increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer is possible, and in fact one of them reported in the past on this concern, they also are once again worried that the inferences being drawn from the US cancer epidemiology data may be artifactual.