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Multigenerational familial medullary thyroid cancer (FMTC): evidence for FMTC phenocopies and association with papillary thyroid cancer.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Jan 2002
Fugazzola L, Cerutti N, Mannavola D, Ghilardi G, Alberti L, Romoli R, Beck-Peccoz P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Occurrence in a familial setting is well established for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) and has been more recently reported for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Germline mutations or rearrangements of the RET proto-oncogene are the genetic background of the majority of hereditary MTCs and of about 25-40% of PTCs. PATIENTS: A large multigenerational familial medullary thyroid cancer (FMTC) family,...
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