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Epidemiology

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This Chapter begins with a brief review of routine national statistics on the mortality and incidence of thyroid cancer. Such material is often difficult to interpret, due to its inherent errors and biases; a subsection discusses a number of specific problems with these data on thyroid disease. Sections of factors known or suspected to be associated with the development of thyroid cancer then follow. Irradiation is the most clearly documented aetiological factor, and this is considered in detail in Chapter 2. The final Section endeavours to abstract from the previous material pointers to the control of thyroid cancer.

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Alderson, M.R. (1980). Epidemiology. In: Duncan, W. (eds) Thyroid Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81325-2_1

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