Ethical issues raised by thyroid cancer overdiagnosis : a matter for public health?

Wendy Rogers was supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT130100346). Wendy Craig was funded in part by a NRS Career Researcher Fellowship from NHS Scotland (2015-16); she wishes to acknowledge Prof Zyg Krukowski, formerly of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, whose longterm prospective clinical data underpinned her doctoral thesis and subsequent work. We thank participants at the International Association of Bioethics 2016 Congress for comments on a presentation draft of this paper.Peer reviewedPostprin