Thyroid Cancer Rates are Increasing, and Better Detection is Not the Only Reason

Rates of thyroid cancer are on the rise in the United States, and new research shows that the increase is due not just to better detection of existing thyroid cancers, as has previously been thought. What is causing the increase in thyroid cancer? Why is thyroid cancer the fastest growing cancer in the U.S.? Find out more about the new research just published by the journal Cancer, along with thoughts from Dr. Bruce Davidson of Georgetown about what could be behind the increase.

And what do YOU think about the various theories regarding this rise in thyroid cancer? Share your thoughts now, in Readers Respond: Why Do You Think Thyroid Cancer is On the Rise??

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