Thyroid Cancer Incidences From Selected South America Population-Based Cancer Registries: An Age-Period-Cohort Study

Purpose: The incidence of thyroid cancer (TC) has increased substantially worldwide. However, there is a lack of knowledge about age-period-cohort (APC) effects on incidence rates in South American countries. This study describes the TC incidence trends and analyzes APC effects in Cali, Colombia; Co...

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Main Authors: Anne Karin da Mota Borges, Adalberto Miranda-Filho, Sérgio Koifman, Rosalina Jorge Koifman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society of Clinical Oncology 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of Global Oncology
Online Access:http://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JGO.17.00024