Study of female predilection for thyroid gland carcinoma in Republic Armenia
Khachatrian, A.S.
Georgian Medical News 202: 7-11
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 1512-0112 PMID: 22392775 Document Number: 660661
Thyroid carcinoma is the most common primary cancer of the thyroid gland. The purpose of the study is to find if thyroid gland carcinoma show gender predilection in Armenia. 529 cases of thyroid gland cancer were studied in hospitals from 1999 to 2011. It was found that thyroid gland carcinoma is three times more common in women than in men practically in all age groups. In comparison with 1985 year the frequency of disease in women has increased. Thyroid gland carcinoma had a higher death rate in women than in men. The lethality was higher in men.