Occurrence of Thyroid Cancer in San Francisco
- 14 July 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 253 (2) , 45-51
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195507142530201
Abstract
IN the literature, the occurrence of cancer of the A thyroid gland has been studied at numerous teaching hospitals and large clinics by comparison, over a period, with the type of goiter seen clinically, with the number of thyroid operations, with the number of deaths or with the number of autopsies. Sokal,1 after estimating prevalence and incidence by combining clinical data, mortality statistics and autopsy statistics, presents his conclusions in a more tangible and vivid manner. He states that in a hypothetical city of 1,000,000 there would be 25 patients with thyroid cancer at any given time, that on the . . .Keywords
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