Thyroid Cancer Incidence During 2020 to 2021 COVID-19 Variant Waves.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

How rates of thyroid cancer diagnosis were affected by the emergence of COVID-19 variants during the 2020 to 2021 era of the pandemic has not been described.

Objective

To estimate the total number of undiagnosed cases of thyroid cancer, by histologic type, during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 and 2021) by comparing observed to expected incidence and to test for changes in size of cancer at incidence during the same period compared to prior years.

Design, setting, and participants

This longitudinal study analyzed trends in thyroid cancer diagnoses from 2016 to 2021 among US adults using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 22 (SEER-22) program database. Data analyses were performed in April to May 2024.

Main outcome

SUBMITTER: Bell R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581733 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature