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Moreover, an increasing percentage of patients are currently diagnosed incidentally through non-thyroid-related imaging for other clinical conditions. Our aim was to assess the prevalence of thyroid-related disease (TD) versus incidental diagnosis (ID) pre-surgery reasons leading to TC diagnosis and to compare the two groups in terms of clinical characteristics, size and severity of TC at presentation and rate of non-thyroid cancers and cardiovascular\/metabolic comorbidities.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:sec>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>We performed a retrospective cohort study in three high-volume hospital-based centers for thyroid diseases (Pavia, Latina and Messina) in Italy.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:sec>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>Patients<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>Consecutive patients with TC were included.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:sec>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>Measurements<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>Data on pre-surgery reasons leading to TC diagnosis, age, sex, BMI, presence of cardiometabolic comorbidities and non-thyroid cancer were collected.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:sec>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>Among the 327 enrolled subjects, the diagnosis of TC was prompted by thyroid-related reasons in 262 (80.1%, TD group) and incidental in 65 (19.9%, ID group). The ID group patients were more frequently males, significantly older and with a higher BMI than the TD group ones; they had a higher rate of non-thyroidal cancers and cardiovascular\/metabolic comorbidities. No significant differences could be observed in terms of TC histotype, cancer size, extrathyroidal extension, lymph node metastases, AJCC staging or American Thyroid Association (ATA) risk stratification.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:sec>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>Biological features of TC are similar in the TD and ID groups, but patients in the two groups display significant differences regarding their clinical features.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:sec>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1530\/etj-24-0190","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,22]],"date-time":"2025-01-22T13:29:48Z","timestamp":1737552588000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1530\/crossmarkpolicy-17","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Differences and analogies in thyroid cancer discovered incidentally or by thyroid-related screening: a multicenter study"],"prefix":"10.1530","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7668-8276","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Laura","family":"Croce","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pavia 1 , ,","place":["Pavia, Italy"]},{"name":"Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Laboratory for Endocrine Disruptors 2 , ,","place":["Pavia, Italy"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rosaria Maddalena","family":"Ruggeri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human Pathology and Childhood \u201cG. 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