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Increased Incidence of Thyroid Carcinoma in France: A True Epidemic or Thyroid Nodule Management Effects? Report from the French Thyroid Cancer Committee

Overview of attention for article published in Thyroid, December 2004
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Title
Increased Incidence of Thyroid Carcinoma in France: A True Epidemic or Thyroid Nodule Management Effects? Report from the French Thyroid Cancer Committee
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Thyroid, December 2004
DOI 10.1089/thy.2004.14.1056
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Authors

Laurence Leenhardt, Pascale Grosclaude, Laurence Chri-Challine

Abstract

Thyroid cancer (TC) incidence, in France, has dramatically increased over the last two decades. In order to try and account for this observation, the French Department of Health requested the Public Health Agency to coordinate a multidisciplinary Thyroid Cancer Committee (TCC). The TCC analysed the temporal incidence trend in France, evaluated the contribution of changes in diagnostic practices of thyroid diseases to the observed increase of TC, and set up guidelines to improve the national surveillance system of TC. The increased incidence of TC is real (8.1% and 6.2% per year in women and in men, respectively), mainly due to papillary type with an epidemic of microcarcinomas (43% of operated cancers, period 1998-2001) associated to the extensiveness of thyroidectomies. Multicentric studies showed a significant increase, from 1980 to 2000, in ultrasonographic (3 to 84.8%) and cytological procedures (8 to 36% of patients with thyroid nodules) as well as a significant association between the increase in TC prevalence among operated patients (12.5 to 37%) and the spread of fine needle aspiration. Epidemiological evidence does not favour any link with the Chernobyl accident. The TCC recommended a national registry dedicated to thyroid cancer of the youths ( <18 years old). For adults, in addition with the strengthening of the French regional registries, a continuous registration of incident cases through the National Hospital Discharge Survey that covers all the territories is proposed. Such system, matched with pathological data derived from a national standardized collection, will provide a relevant model for epidemiological surveys of TC.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 70 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Bachelor 10 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Student > Postgraduate 6 8%
Other 18 25%
Unknown 14 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 37 51%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 1%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 18 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 September 2020.
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#2,049,746
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#224
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#5,323
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Outputs of similar age from Thyroid
#4
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