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A cohort study on 10-year survival of sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma with somatic RET mutation.
The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences - 1 Nov 2016
Chuang Li-Lun, Hwang Daw-Yang, Tsai Kun-Bow, Chan Hon-Man, Chiang Feng-Yu, Hsiao Pi-Jung
Abstract excerpt
Somatic rearranged during transfection (RET) mutations are reported in 40-50% of sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma (sMTC) patients with prognostic significance. As there is a lack of somatic RET mutations reported previously for the Taiwanese population, we tried to assess the presence of somatic RET mutations and evaluate the potential outcome predictors for our sMTC patients. We collected data from seven...
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