Re-categorization of thyroid cancer in US triggers ‘excessive diagnosis’ in Korea

It seems the U.S. movement of changing the name of thyroid cancer – follicular thyroid cancer must be called as tumor, not cancer – will again trigger the Korean ‘thyroid cancer’s excessive diagnosis’ issue.

University of Pittsburgh, which received a request from the National Cancer Institute, announced follicular thyroid cancer should be called as tumor, not cancer.

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