South Korea’s Thyroid-Cancer "Epidemic" — Turning the Tide

To the Editor: In 2014, we reported on the rate of thyroid-cancer diagnoses in South Korea that was 15 times as high in 2011 as the rate in 1993. This increase resulted when fee-for-service providers added thyroid screening with ultrasonography to other cancer-screening tests paid for by the…

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