Thyroid cancer undifferentiated carcinoma

Note-. PC, papillary carcinoma FC, follicular carcinoma UC, undifferentiated carcinoma MC, medullary carcinomas TL, thyroid lymphoma NA, not applicable (TL none in males and before salt iodination, MC two and three cases before and after prophylaxis, respectively). Thyroid cancer by type, mean age and gender before (1958-1972) (I) and after (1985-2003) (II) salt iodization in the province of Salta, Argentina. 

Tallin G, Santoro M, Helie M, et al. RET/PTC oncogene activation defines a subset of papillary thyroid carcinomas lacking evidence of progression to poorly differentiated or undifferentiated tumor phenotypes. Clin Cancer Res. 1998 4 287-294. 

Bravo, S.B., Garcia-Rendueles, M.E.R., Seoane, R., Dosil, V., Cameselle-Teijeiro, J., Lopez-Lazaro, L., Zalvide, J., Barreiro, F., Pombo, C.M., and Alvarez, C.V. (2005) Plitidepsin has a cytostatic effect in human undifferentiated (anaplastic) thyroid carcinoma. Clin. Cancer Res., 11, 7664-7673. 

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