Hot Topics in Thyroid Cancer

Lori Wirth, MD, associate professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and medical director of the Center for Head and Neck Cancers at Massachusetts General Hospital, spoke with Healio about the rising incidence of thyroid cancer among children and teenagers.

In this video, Wirth discusses:

• The increasing incidence of small and large pediatric thyroid cancers across subgroups;
• A possible link between the increase of childhood obesity and pediatric thyroid cancer; and
• The 4% spike in cases among teenagers in the last 10 years.