Incidence of thyroid cancer in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2000–2010

Abstract

Thyroid cancer incidence rates have increased exponentially between 2000 and 2010 and there is significant geographical variation in the incidence of thyroid cancer throughout the Kingdom. Thyroid cancer has become the second most common cancer among young Saudi women with a male to female ratio at 0.3:1. Rising incidence of thyroid cancer in Saudi Arabia may be due to the increased detection and diagnosis of the thyroid cancers and not only an increase in the true occurrence of thyroid cancer. More studies are required to determine this significant difference at the molecular level.

Histopathological Patterns of Thyroid Disease in Al-Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia

“…In two excellent review articles covering cancer epidemiology in Arab world and South East Asia, researchers also concluded thyroid carcinoma to be second commonest cancer in Saudi females (Salim et al, 2009, Salim et al, 2010. These findings have recently been confirmed in the KSA by Hussain et al (2013). From other Arab countries, Abdulkareem (2010), did a prospective study on thyroid biopsies in Iraq.…”

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Morphological difference in adult thyroid papillary carcinoma between Japan and Ukraine

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Overview of Cancer Registration Research in the Asian Pacific from 2008-2013

“…In Saudi Arabia, thyroid cancer incidence rates have increased exponentially between 2000 and 2010 with significant geographical variation, now the second most common cancer among young Saudi women with a male to female ratio at 0.3:1 (Hussain et al, 2013). Size of young population and social determinants may be important effective elements for differences in survival, which should be taken more into consideration in managing chronic disease such as thyroid cancer (Khayamzadeh et al, 2011) In China both incidence and mortality of thyroid cancer are higher in females than in males, 3.38 and 1.75 times higher in urban than rural areas, the incidence showing annually increase of 14.5% while the mortality increased by 1.42% (Liu et al, 2012).…”