thyroid cancer
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- Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), usually a low-risk malignant tumor of thyroid, has some variants that clinically behave in an aggressive manner.
- Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a malignant tumor derived from C cells.
- Hurthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid is a rare type of thyroid neoplasm.
- Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is extremely rare in children.
- The term Endocrine Related Cancers classically includes a group of sex steroid responsive cancers, such as cancers of the breast, endometrium, prostate, and testis, but also other cancers such as thyroid and ovary cancers that are responsive to pitui-tary hormones (1).
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (FMTC) are two dominantly inherited disorders caused by germline mutations of the RET proto-oncogene.