What is it about?
Overdiagnosis explain the explosion of new cases of thyroid carcinoma. Data about its causes is disperse in literature. We arranged a theoretical frame that join all the information in a simple piece of information.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
As causes of overdiagnosis are heterogeneous, the model described helps decision-makers and physicians to understand the whole picture and to design strategies to control it.
Perspectives
I expect this collaborative article helps to approach the growing problem of overdiagnosis and to design new alternatives to deal with the problem considering the patient expectations, the physician needs, the health system structure and the environment pressure.
Dr Álvaro Sanabria
Universidad de Antioquia
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Growing incidence of thyroid carcinoma in recent years: Factors underlying overdiagnosis, Head & Neck, December 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/hed.25029.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
