High-Tech Imaging Contributes to Overtreatment of Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer

An increasing gap between the incidence of thyroid cancer and deaths from the disease suggests that low-risk cancers are being overdiagnosed and overtreated. A study from the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery finds this. The study appears in the current issue of the iBritish Medical Journal/i. "High tech imaging technologies such as ultrasound, CT and MRI can detect very small thyroid nodules many of which are slow growing ...

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