A cohort study on 10-year survival of sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma with somatic RET mutation

A cohort study on 10-year survival of sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma with somatic RET mutation

Somatic rearranged during transfection (RET) mutations are reported in 40–50% of sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma (sMTC) patients with prognostic significance. As there is a lack of somatic RET mutations reported previously for the Taiwanese population, we tried to assess the presence of somatic...

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Main Authors: Li-Lun Chuang, Daw-Yang Hwang, Kun-Bow Tsai, Hon-Man Chan, Feng-Yu Chiang, Pi-Jung Hsiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-11-01
Series:Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences
Subjects:
Calcitonin
Carcinoembryonic antigen
Outcome
RET proto-oncogene mutation
Sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma
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