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Recent advances in the biology and therapy of medullary thyroid carcinoma
2017-12-28
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Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is a relatively uncommon yet prognostically significant thyroid cancer. Several recent advances in the biology and current or potential treatment of MTC are notable. These include a new understanding of the developmental biology of the thyroid C cell, which heretofore was thought to develop from the neural crest. RET, encoded by the most common driver gene in MTC, has been shown to b...
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- 10.12688/f1000research.12645.1