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Medical Insights Korea
Chloe Moon reports on internal medicine in South Korea for Medical Insights Korea, working from published studies and official health data.
FAQ · Thyroid
About three in ten asymptomatic adults have one. Korea scanned enough people to find them at scale and produced the world's largest cancer detection epidemic without moving the death rate.
Chloe Moon6 min read
News · Thyroid
Korea found more thyroid cancer than any country in history and almost none of the extra deaths that would justify it. This is what the published evidence establishes, and where it stops.
Chloe Moon8 min read
FAQ · Thyroid
It multiplied diagnoses. The published evidence is that the great majority of those diagnoses were of cancers that would never have caused harm.
Chloe Moon4 min read
News · Thyroid
National registry data has the standardised rate falling from 75.06 to 42.50 per 100,000 in three years, then climbing to 60.13 by 2021. The renewed rise includes distant-stage disease, which overdetection does not produce.
Chloe Moon6 min read