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Increasing incidence of thyroid cancer: controversies explored

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Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy and its incidence has been increasing considerably in the past few decades. Many studies have been published providing evidence for this increase; however, why thyroid cancer incidence keeps rising is still debated and there are conflicting reports of factors leading to the increase in its incidence. In this article, Nature Reviews Endocrinology asks four experts their opinions on some of the controversies surrounding the changing trends in thyroid cancer incidence.

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  1. ito01@kuma h.or.jp

  2. nikiforovye@upmc.edu

  3. martin.schlumberger@igr.fr

  4. vigneri@unict.it

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  1. Department of Surgery, Kuma Hospital, 8-2-35, Shimoyamate-dori, Chuo-ku, 650-0011, Kobe, Japan

    Yasuhiro Ito

  2. Division of Molecular Anatomic Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh UPMC, Presbyterian 200 Lothrop Street, Room C-606, Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA

    Yuri E. Nikiforov

  3. Institut Gustave Roussy and University Paris-Sud, 114 Rue Edouard Vaillant, Villejuif, 94800, France

    Martin Schlumberger

  4. Endocrinologia, Garibaldi–Nesima Medical Center, Via Palermo 636, Catania, 95122, Italy

    Riccardo Vigneri

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Ito, Y., Nikiforov, Y., Schlumberger, M. et al. Increasing incidence of thyroid cancer: controversies explored. Nat Rev Endocrinol 9, 178–184 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2012.257

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