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Do US thyroid cancer incidence rates increase with socioeconomic status among people with health insurance? An observational study using SEER population-based data

OBJECTIVES: The US thyroid cancer incidence rates are rising while mortality remains stable. Trends are driven by papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), the predominant cancer subtype which has a very good prognosis. We hypothesised that health insurance and high census tract socioeconomic status (SES) are...

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Autores principales: Altekruse, Sean, Das, Anita, Cho, Hyunsoon, Petkov, Valentina, Yu, Mandi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4679945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26644126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009843