Korea's Thyroid Cancer Initiative Backfired

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Thyroid is a bit unique in another regard, different from prostate and other cancers. The treatments for metastatic thyroid cancer are quite good. While I don't advise doing nothing, then doing sequential ultrasounds makes sense because if you delay the diagnosis, it's not likely to matter at all. But it's likely to save you a lot of hardship. In Korea, they made it a national initiative to make sure that they got out there and they ultrasound thyroids. We're going to get rid of thyroid cancer. We're going to have a national health initiative. to ultrasound thyroid glands. They did. The rate of thyroid cancer diagnosis, you look at the graph, it's skyrocketed.

[00:00:37]Thyroid cancer diagnosis went through the roof. Most of these thyroid cancers are indolent. Taking the thyroid out surgically causes harm without benefit.

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