[Epidemiology and early diagnosis of thyroid cancer (based on data from the Oncology Dispensary of the city of Stara Zagora, the People's Republic of Bulgaria)].
An epidemiologic study on thyroid gland cancer in the catchment area of Stara Zagora District Oncological Dispensary with a population of 645,000 was conducted in 1964-1983. The morbidity rate was 1.62/100,000 population, thyroid cancer amounting to 0.83% of all malignancies. Female morbidity was 2.7 times that of males. The highest level of morbidity for both sexes was in the age interval of 31-50 years. Morbidity in urban and rural areas was on the ratio of 1.5:1.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002031:Bulgaria; D002173:Cancer Care Facilities; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012424:Rural Population; D012737:Sex Factors; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014505:Urban Population
Ob épidemiologii i ranneĭ diagnostike raka shchitovidnoĭ zhelezy (po materialam onkologicheskogo dispansera g. Stara Zagora, NRB).