Article
TERT reactivation in thyroid cancer: mechanisms, clinical implications, and therapeutic opportunities.
European thyroid journal - 1 Oct 2026
Nguyen Linh T T, Glover Anthony, Gild Matti, Bullock Martyn
Abstract excerpt
Somatic mutations in the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) promoter are key molecular events in thyroid carcinogenesis and are strongly associated with aggressive clinical behaviour. The c.-124C>T and c.-146C>T hotspot mutations, discovered in 2013, are now recognised as major mechanisms of TERT reactivation and as independent predictors of disease-specific survival, recurrence, and disease refractoriness...
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- Humans
- Telomerase
- Thyroid Neoplasms
- Mutation
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf
