Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Journalist: More and more people are being diagnosed with thyroid

Conclusion of the passage is that frequent testing is not the culprit of more and more people being diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
We need to find what is causing more and more people being diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

A. exposure to certain chemicals appears to be associated with thyroid cancer.
This answer choice provides an alternate to frequent testing, however this is not a new cause and hence cannot be associated with the rise in people being diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
Eliminate

B: patients do not usually have symptoms unless the cancer is at an advanced stage.
This answer choice does not explain why more people are being diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
Eliminate

C:the accuracy of diagnostic tests for thyroid cancer has not increased significantly.
This answer choice does not explain why more people are being diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
Eliminate

D: the survival rate for thyroid cancer is higher than it is for most other cancers.
this answer choice does not explain why
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Statistics : Posted by Kmohan1 • on 13 Aug 2023, 12:00 • Replies 4 • Views 1180

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