Long-term survival of patients with thyroid cancer according to the methods of tumor detection: A nationwide cohort study in Korea.

In this retrospective cohort study, we compared the survival of patients detected by screening with those detected based on symptoms, according to their tumor stages. After propensity score matching, 2,130 patients with papillary or follicular thyroid cancer, identified by screening detection (SD) a...

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Main Authors: Yuh-Seog Jung, Chang-Mo Oh, Yeol Kim, Kyu-Won Jung, Junsun Ryu, Young-Joo Won
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5901988?pdf=render