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William D.T. Kent, MSc MD, Stephen F. Hall, MSc MD, Phillip A. Isotalo, MD, Robyn L. Houlden, MD, Ralph L. George, MD and Patti A. Groome, PhD

From the Departments of Surgery [General Surgery] (Kent), Otolaryngology (Hall), Pathology and Molecular Medicine (Isotalo), Medicine [Endocrinology] (Houlden) and Surgery [Surgical Oncology] (George), Queen's University; and the Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology (Groome), Cancer Research Institute at Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.


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  		Figure 1: Overall incidence of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in Ontario from 1990 to 2001, by tumour size.

 

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  		Figure 2: Incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer from Jan. 1, 1990, to Dec. 31, 2001, according to tumour size. The regression line of the small-tumour group (< 2 cm) demonstrates a noteworthy increase over time (slope 9.57, 95% CI 5.40–13.74, p = 0.001).