Can patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma and low postoperative thyroglobulin in the presence of clinically apparent lymph node metastases (cN1) be spared from radioiodine?
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DOI: 10.1007/s12020-020-02414-1
Abstract: Background The study evaluated the recurrence rate in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and clinically apparent lymph node metastases (LNM) (cN1) who had low thyroglobulin (Tg) after total thyroidectomy and who were not submitted… read more here.
Keywords: papillary thyroid; patients papillary; clinically apparent; thyroid carcinoma ... See more keywords
Might tumor secreted cathepsin proteases leave specific molecular signals in skin, hair and nails years before a cancer becomes clinically apparent?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2017.04.012
Abstract: X-ray fiber diffraction analysis (FDA) of the fibrous macromolecules in hair, nails and skin has been shown to non-invasively diagnose various cancers, at sites remote from the cancer, years before the cancer becomes clinically apparent.… read more here.
Keywords: years cancer; clinically apparent; cancer; cancer becomes ... See more keywords