Successful pregnancy without disease progression of radioiodine refractory papillary thyroid carcinoma: a case report

Abstract Background Pregnancy is an unquantifiable risk to accelerate tumor growth of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), and whether pregnancy induces an unfavorable prognosis of radioiodine refractory papillary thyroid carcinoma (RR-PTC) remains unknown. Case presentation We investigated the impact...

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Main Authors: Yuchen Jin, Min Liu, Lingxiao Cheng, Libo Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-017-3717-3