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ea0029p1797 | Thyroid cancer | ICEECE2012

Papillary thyroid carcinoma with high percentage of BRAFV600E alleles have a higher recurrence rate

Guerra A. , Fugazzola L. , Marotta V. , Cirillo M. , Di Stasi V. , Volpe A. , Murino A. , Di Stasi M. , Vitale M.

Context: Although unexplained conflicting results are present in the literature, most of studies report the association of BRAFV600E in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with a more advanced disease and with a worst prognosis. We recently demonstrated that in most of the cases PTC consists of a mixture of tumour cells with wild-type and mutant BRAF. Hence, we examined the association of percentage of BRAFV600E alleles with clinicopathologic parameters at diagnosis and disease ...