RT Book, Section A1 Elaraj, Dina M. A1 Sturgeon, Cord A2 Morita, Shane Y. A2 Dackiw, Alan P. B. A2 Zeiger, Martha A. SR Print(0) ID 6162285 T1 Chapter 4. Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma T2 McGraw-Hill Manual: Endocrine Surgery YR 2010 FD 2010 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-160645-5 LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6162285 RD 2024/03/29 AB Thyroid cancer was expected to have an annual incidence in the United States of 37,340 cases in 2008 and has become the sixth most common cancer in women.1 There has been a 2.4-fold increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer in the United States over the past 30 years, from 3.6 per 100,000 in 1973 to 8.7 per 100,000 in 2003, with virtually the entire increase attributable to the papillary type, particularly cancers smaller than 2 cm in diameter.2