FRACKING MANIA INHERITANCE HERSHEY, Pa. -- Incidence of thyroid cancer is rising faster in Pennsylvania than in the rest of the United States, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Since the mid-1970s, the incidence of thyroid cancer in the United States has more than tripled, said Dr. David Goldenberg, professor of surgery and medicine. Thyroid cancer is now the seventh leading type of cancer in the nation. It typically occurs in young women and is projected to become the third most common cancer in women by 2019. Papillary thyroid cancer, responsible for most of this increase, is very treatable and has a 95 percent 30-year survival rate. There are no symptoms in all but the latest stages and the cancer is typically discovered incidentally during a physical exam or on an imaging study. The researchers compared the states thyroid cancer rates with the nations by using two databases -- Pennsylvania Cancer Registry (PCR), a database started in 1985, and Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) 9, a database started in 1973 and representative of the general population in the U.S. The researchers identified a total of 110,615 cases in SEER 9 and 29,030 in PCR.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:24:55 +0000
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