An Introduction to Managing Medullary Thyroid Cancer

<p>Abstract</p> <p>MTC is a rare neuroendocrine thyroid tumour accounting for 3% to 10% of all thyroid malignancies. It can occur in a sporadic and a hereditary clinical setting. Hereditary MTC may either occur alone (familial MTC, FMTC) or as part of multiple endocrine neoplasia (...

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Main Authors: de Groot Jan, Links Thera P, Hofstra Robert MW, Plukker John TM
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-07-01
Series:Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
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Online Access:http://www.hccpjournal.com/content/4/3/115