Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Cancer Epidemiology Volume 2012, Article ID 641372, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/641372
Research Article Long-Term Survival in Young Women: Hazards and Competing Risks after Thyroid Cancer Antoinette M. Stroup, C. Janna Harrell, and Kimberly A. Herget Utah Cancer Registry, The University of Utah, 650 Komas Drive, Suite 106B, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Antoinette M. Stroup,
[email protected] Received 28 April 2012; Revised 19 July 2012; Accepted 31 July 2012 Academic Editor: Anne Kirchhoff Copyright © 2012 Antoinette M. Stroup et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background. Differentiated thyroid cancers (DTCs) are one of the most common and survivable cancers diagnosed in women. We examine factors associated with long-term survival and competing risks of death in women diagnosed with DTC under the age of 40 (
