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Familial Papillary Thyroid Cancer—Many Syndromes, Too Many Genes?*
1 May 2000
Abstract excerpt
Not so long ago, claiming that nonmedullary thyroid cancer could be anything but sporadic was heresy. Clinical and genetic investigations have come a long way, even in the last few years, and now it is almost dogma to state that approximately 5–10% of all thyroid carcinoma cases will be hereditary. A higher proportion (25%) of all medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) presentations are hereditary. Whereas the...
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