About the Authors

Yuh-Seog Jung

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuh-Seog Jung, Chang-Mo Oh

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Head & Neck Oncology Clinic, Center for Thyroid Cancer, National Cancer Center Hospital, Goyang, South Korea, Specific Organs Cancer Branch, Research Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea, Department of Cancer Control and Population Health, National Cancer Center Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea

Chang-Mo Oh

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuh-Seog Jung, Chang-Mo Oh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Cancer registration and statistic branch, National Cancer Control Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea, Departments of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

Yeol Kim

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cancer Control and Population Health, National Cancer Center Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea, Division of Cancer Management & Policy, National Cancer Control Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea

Kyu-Won Jung

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Cancer registration and statistic branch, National Cancer Control Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea

Junsun Ryu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Head & Neck Oncology Clinic, Center for Thyroid Cancer, National Cancer Center Hospital, Goyang, South Korea, Specific Organs Cancer Branch, Research Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea

Young-Joo Won

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

astra67@ncc.re.kr

Affiliations Department of Cancer Control and Population Health, National Cancer Center Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea, Cancer registration and statistic branch, National Cancer Control Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.