MON-546 Drivers of Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis in a Middle-Income Country: An Analysis in a Thyroid Cancer Referral Center in Ecuador

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Introduction Thyroid cancer (TC) incidence has tripled in the last decades with relatively steady rates of mortality. The growing use of imaging techniques (e.g. neck ultrasound, computed tomography) is a common driver of thyroid cancer diagnosis in the United States and other developed countries. Often, the thyroid cancer lesions found incidentally by imaging are small papillary thyroid cancers of indolent course. However, the triggers that fuel thyroid cancer diagnosis in non-high-income countries is unclear. Ecuador is a middle-income country with the highest thyroid cancer incidence in South America. Our goal is to describe the triggers of thyroid cancer diagnosis in a thyroid cancer referral center in Ecuador and to explore the association of the mechanism of detection with tumor size and histology. Methods In this retrospective cohort study, patients with TC were recruited at a thyroid cancer referral Center in …

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2019

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