| APCs | Annual Percentage Changes |
| AAPC | Average Annual Percentage Change |
| ASIR | Age-Standardized Incidence Rate |
| ATA | American Thyroid Association |
| BAPC | Bayesian autoregressive age–period–cohort |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| CIR | Crude Incidence Rate |
| FTC | Follicular Thyroid Cancer |
| GLOBOCAN | Global Cancer Observatory |
| IARC | International Agency for Research on Cancer |
| ICD-O | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology |
| NTCR | Northern Tunisia Cancer Registry |
| PTC | Papillary Thyroid Cancer |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| TC | Thyroid Cancer |
| WHO | World Health Organization |