Role of the Mechanisms of Detection in the Increased Risk of Thyroid Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study in an HMO in Buenos Aires.
María Fabiana Russo PicassoJimena VicensCarina GiulianiAna Del Valle JaénCarmen CabezónMarcelo FigariAna María Gómez SaldañoSilvana FigarPublished in: Journal of cancer epidemiology (2018)
Our findings partially support the hypothesis of increased incidence due to overdetection but do not explain the changes in the increase of larger tumors and decrease in the female/male ratio, which could be secondary to the influence of unidentified environmental factors.