Onkologie. 2011:5(6):340-343

The worldvide expected numbers of thyroid cancers

Edvard Geryk¹, Teodor Horváth¹, Petr Kubíček², Radim Štampach²

¹ Fakultní nemocnice Brno

² Geografický ústav Přírodovědecké fakulty MU, Brno

Of the worldwide 213 179 new cases of thyroid cancer (TC) based in Globocan 2008 (IARC) are estimated 46.1 % cases in more developed and

53.9 % in less developed regions, 33 599 in the European Union and 934 in the Czech Republic in 2008; of the worldwide 35 383 deaths there

were 27.3 % in more developed and 72.7 % in less developed regions, 3,581 in the European Union and 81 in the Czech Republic. In 2030 the

expected new cases can reach more than 310 thousands of TC in the world, increased by 17.1 % in males and 7.1 % in females in more developed,

by 58.7 % in males and 56.5 % in females in less developed regions, respectively by 14.1 % and 7.2 % in the European Union, by 20.4 % and 7.9 %

in the Czech Republic. The worldwide new cases of TC were 3.3 times higher and deaths 2.2 times higher in females than in males. The Czech

males and females reached 14th highest values by crude rate of TC among 184 countries, respectively 9th and 7th among 20 European countries

in 2008. The worldwide new cases of TC aged 65 years and over were 21.9 % in males and 18.5 % in females in 2008, respectively 30.6 %

and 26.4 % in the Czech Republic with expected increasing by 97 thousands cases in the world and 100 cases in the Czech Republic in 2030.

Alarming numbers of TC and other neoplasms, should promote personal responsibility for reducing the expected statistical data.

Keywords: thyroid cancers, new diseases and deaths, age distribution, expected numbers in selected regions of the world

Published: December 1, 2011  Show citation