NHK: Thyroid cancer found in 18 Fukushima children

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32. Not as the NIH/NCI define it.

Their definition for remission presupposes that cancer is first diagnosed, since it is " A decrease in or disappearance of signs and symptoms of cancer"

If you have an undiagnosed growing thyroid cancer with no symptoms, it obviously can't be said to be benign, but it's also not decreasing or disappearing. There must therfore be a third category.

The only thing this high detection rate in autopsies tells me is that elderly people become more susceptible to cancer as they reach end of life.

The studies clearly do show that thyroid cancer becomes more and more common as the individual ages, but the autopsies were not exclusively of the elderly. The occurance of undiagnosed thyroid cancer specifically (and thyroid nodules in general) was much higher than had been identified through normal clinical checks.