Limitations The limitations of this study include: (1) As a population-based analysis, we need to be very vigilant against ecological fallacies, and when explaining the results, we can only put forward the scientific hypothesis of the causality of the epidemic trend based on the existing data and previous literature rather than subjectively infer it; (2) There may be great discrepancies in the incidence among different pathological types of TC, which is not reflected in the GBD database; (3) There may be significant differences in incidence rate among different regions of the same country, especially in countries with a large population and a vast territory.
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Global thyroid cancer incidence trend and age-period-cohort model analysis based on Global Burden of Disease Study from 1990 to 2019.
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