Article
Clinicopathologic significance of BRAF V600E mutation in papillary carcinomas of the thyroid: a meta-analysis.
Cancer - 1 Jul 2007
Lee Ju-Han, Lee Eung-Seok, Kim Young-Sik
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have investigated the clinical significance of BRAF mutation in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). However, there have been conflicting data on the usefulness of BRAF mutation as a prognostic marker of PTC. To address this controversy, the frequency of the BRAF mutation and the associations between BRAF mutation and clinicopathologic parameters in PTC were evaluated by meta-analysis....
Topics
- Adult
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Carcinoma, Papillary
- Female
- Humans
- Lymphatic Metastasis
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Neoplasm Staging
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf
- Thyroid Neoplasms
