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Clinical behavior and genetics of nonsyndromic, familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer.
Frontiers of hormone research - 1 Jan 2013
Bauer Andrew J
Abstract excerpt
Nonmedullary thyroid cancer (NMTC) is one of the most inheritable forms of all cancers with an 8- to 10-fold risk of a first-degree relative developing disease. Familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer (FNMTC) describes this familial aggregation and is comprised of two distinct subgroups; syndromic and nonsyndromic. Greater than 85% of thyroid tumors in nonsyndromic FNMTC are papillary thyroid cancer, followed by FTC...
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