Modern screening can create patients out of people who never needed treatment in the first place.
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While symptoms can be subtle, untreated Hashimoto’s can cause long-term problems with your heart, memory and fertility.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to treating cancer. Understanding how cancer cells evolve could help researchers develop more effective drugs.
More and more healthy women and men are found to have thyroid nodules. What are they? And should you be worried about them?
As access to health care increases, there’s also a danger of getting too much of it.
New research estimates 24% of cancers in men that were detected in 2012 were overdiagnosed, meaning they never would have caused harm if left untreated.
Many Canadians underwent radiation treatment for benign illnesses in the 1940s and 1950s. There has been no systematic investigation or education campaign to alert those patients to their increased risks of thyroid cancer today.
Labelling very low-risk conditions as cancers can cause unnecessary anxiety and lead to overtreatment.
Chernobyl is already responsible for up to 5,000 cases of cancer in Europe.
The meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 exposed 572 million people to radiation. No other nuclear accident holds a candle to that level of public health impact.
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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Deputy Section Head Section of Environment and Radiation at IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
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Associate Professor, Biostatistician, Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University
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The University of Queensland
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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