[Comparative characteristics of thyroid cancer morbidity based on clinical data].

Comparative assessment of the incidence of thyroid cancer in patients operated on for different thyroid diseases from 1980 to 1986 (2448 cases, group 1), and from 1987 to 1991 (1993 cases, group 2) was carried out. The increase in incidence of thyroid cancer in group 2 patients was noted as well, as that in incidence of cancer development among the other hyperplastic diseases of the thyroid gland, autoimmune thyroiditis in particular. The results obtained are indicative of the necessity for correction of the tactics of treatment and prophylactic follow-up of the patients with different forms of goiter.