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Role and relevance of BRAF mutations in risk stratifying patients of papillary thyroid cancers along with a review of literature.
Indian journal of cancer - 1 Jan 2000
Krishnamurthy A, Ramshankar V, Murherkar K, Vidyarani S, Raghunandhan G C, Das A, Desai P B, Albert K
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INTRODUCTION: Molecular markers are increasingly being explored as a potential diagnostic and prognostic tool in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancers and B-type Raf kinase (BRAF) V600E mutation has received a wide attention in this regard. Many clinical studies have demonstrated an association of BRAF V600E mutation with aggressive clinicopathologic characteristics and high tumor recurrence and...
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