# Korea's thyroid-cancer "epidemic"--screening and overdiagnosis

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## TL;DR

Paper cited by one bottleneck page and one idea page, indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 25372084 and published in New England Journal of Medicine; the citing pages link this DOI, which is how the record was matched.

## Summary

Europe PMC indexes no abstract for this record; the title is the only text available.

Indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 25372084 (DOI 10.1056/nejmp1409841). Matched by DOI alone: one bottleneck page and one idea page cite this DOI among their external links (the pages are listed under Related), and this page was written so that the citation resolves inside OnCo. No figure has been checked by an editor.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Tags: europepmc-ingest
- Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
- Year: 2014
- DOI: 10.1056/nejmp1409841
- Authors: Ahn HS, Kim HJ, Welch HG
- What it means: One bottleneck page and one idea page on OnCo cite this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing pages listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.
- Caveats: Matched to the citing OnCo records by DOI alone; the summary reproduces the Europe PMC abstract and no figure has been verified against the full paper.

## Sources

- N Engl J Med 2014: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1409841
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25372084/
- Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/25372084

## Connected records

- bottlenecks: [Overdiagnosis and false alarms](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-overdiagnosis/)
- ideas: [Ultrasound restraint and surveillance to reverse thyroid cancer overdiagnosis](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-thyroid-overdiagnosis-reversal/)
- journals: [New England Journal of Medicine](https://onco.cc/journals/nejm/)

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