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Early Malignant Progression of Hereditary Medullary Thyroid Cancer
15 Oct 2003
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: An age-related progression from C-cell hyperplasia to medullary thyroid carcinoma is associated with various germ-line mutations in the rearranged during transfection (RET) proto-oncogene that could be used to identify the optimal time for prophylactic surgery. METHODS: In this European multicenter study conducted from July 1993 to February 2001, we enrolled patients who had a RET point mutation in...
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