%0 Journal Article %T An 18-year study of thyroid carcinoma in the western region of Saudi Arabia: a retrospective single-center study in a community hospital %A Khalid S. Aljabri %A Muneera A. Al Shareef %A Patan Murthuza Khan %A Samia A. Bokhari %J Archive of "Annals of Saudi Medicine". %D 2018 %R 10.5144/0256-4947.2018.336 %X Thyroid carcinoma (TC) is the ninth most common site of all cancers in women in the world and the second most common malignancy in Saudi Arabia. This reports updates data on the epidemiology of the disease in Saudi Arabia %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180217/