Unique association of p53 mutations with undifferentiated but not with differentiated carcinomas of the thyroid gland.

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Unique association of p53 mutations with undifferentiated but not with differentiated carcinomas of the thyroid gland.

Cancer research - 1 Mar 1992

Ito T, Seyama T, Mizuno T, Tsuyama N, Hayashi T, Hayashi Y, Dohi K, Nakamura N, Akiyama M

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Thyroid neoplasms show a wide variety of lesions varying from slowly growing differentiated adenocarcinomas to rapidly proliferating undifferentiated carcinomas. There has been some histopathological evidence that the undifferentiated thyroid carcinomas are derived from differentiated carcinomas....

Topics

Adenocarcinoma, Papillary
Base Sequence
Carcinoma
Genes, p53
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Thyroid Neoplasms

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