Endocrine Abstracts

In the Rhône Alpes region, that hosts more than 5.6 million inhabitants; thyroid illnesses are still rather common with 3,600 operations on the thyroid gland per year, comprising 650 incident cases of cancer. A progressive increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer was suspected in the 1990 s and a population based register was initiated. The collection consists of histological data validated and obtained directly from pathologists, surgical wards and controlled through ...