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New strategies in diagnosing cancer in thyroid nodules: impact of molecular markers.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 May 2013
Nikiforov Yuri E, Yip Linwah, Nikiforova Marina N
Abstract excerpt
Thyroid cancer is the most common type of endocrine malignancy, with approximately 55,000 new cases diagnosed in the United States in 2012. However, thyroid nodules are much more prevalent, particularly with increased age, and only a small fraction of those are malignant. Therefore, the major clinical challenge is to reliably differentiate those nodules that are malignant and need to be treated surgically from...
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