Constitutive RET tyrosine kinase activation in hereditary medullary thyroid cancer: clinical opportunities.

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The ground-breaking discovery of genotype-phenotype relationships in hereditary medullary thyroid cancer has greatly facilitated early prophylactic thyroidectomy. Its timing depends not solely on a positive gene test but, more importantly, on the type of the REarranged during Transfection (RET) mutation and its underlying mode of RET receptor tyrosine kinase activation. In the past decade, the therapeutic...

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