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Pathological processes and therapeutic advances in radioiodide refractory thyroid cancer.
Journal of molecular endocrinology - 1 Nov 2017
Tesselaar Marika H, Smit Johannes W, Nagarajah James, Netea-Maier Romana T, Plantinga Theo S
Abstract excerpt
While in most patients with non-medullary thyroid cancer (TC), disease remission is achieved by thyroidectomy and ablation of tumor remnants by radioactive iodide (RAI), a substantial subgroup of patients with metastatic disease present tumor lesions that have acquired RAI resistance as a result of dedifferentiation. Although oncogenic mutations in BRAF, TERT promoter and TP53 are associated with an increased...
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