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The American Cancer Society’s most recent estimates for thyroid cancer in the United States for 2022 are:

  • About 43,800 new cases of thyroid cancer (11,860 in men and 31,940 in women)

  • About 2,230 deaths from thyroid cancer (1,070 men and 1,160 women)

The death rate for thyroid cancer increased slightly from 2009 to 2018 (0.6% per year) but appears to have stabilized in recent years. Statistics on survival rates for thyroid cancer are discussed in Survival Rates for Thyroid Cancer.

Thyroid cancer is commonly diagnosed at a younger age than most other adult cancers. And women are 3 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than men.

Until recently, thyroid cancer was the most rapidly increasing cancer in the US, largely due to increased detection. Much of this rise appears to be the result of the use of more sensitive diagnostic procedures, such as CT or MRI scans (done for other medical problems), which can detect incidental small thyroid nodules that might not otherwise have been found in the past.  https://www.thyroid.org/

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Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by:

  • social impairments

  • cognitive impairments

  • communication difficulties

  • repetitive behaviors

Because Autism is a spectrum disorder, it can range from very mild to very severe and occur in all ethnic, socioeconomic and age groups. Males are four times more likely to have autism than females. Some children with autism appear normal before age 1 or 2 and then suddenly “regress” and lose language or social skills they had previously gained. This is called the regressive type of autism.

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