The number of people diagnosed with thyroid cancer has been on the rise for 3 decades.
Confirmed cases of the disease have more than doubled worldwide since 1990.
A large portion of the increase has been seen in countries in southern and eastern Asia.
According to UPI, cases in southern and eastern Asia account for more than 40% of global diagnoses in 2017.
In U.S. more than 50,000 people have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.