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19th European Congress of Endocrinology

Lisbon, Portugal
20 May 2017 - 23 May 2017

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Plenary Lectures

Thyroid oncology in the crossroads of precision and narrative medicine

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Thyroid oncology in the crossroads of precision and narrative medicine

Simoes Manuel Sobrinho

Thyroid cancers are the solid tumours of mankind with the lowest mutational load. This holds particularly true for papillary carcinomas (PTC) whose pathogenesis appears to be understandable by a limited number of genetic alterations (That is why they are so frequently multifocal). The utilization of NGS allowed the establishment of three molecular subtypes of well differentiated thyroid carcinomas: BRAF-life (Conventional and tall cell PTC, mainly), RAS-like (Follicular varian...