Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is the most frequent endocrine malignancy with the incidence increasing worldwide. Although, DTCs are considered to be mostly indolent lesions, the proportion of patients develop metastases. Therefore, identification of molecular factors that are involved in thyroid tumour progression might help to better understand the mechanism of thyroid cancer metastasis. In the present study we examine the role of the transcription fac...

Introduction: Follicular adenomas (FTA) and carcinomas (FTC) are thyroid tumours that are indistinguishable in the fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB). In our previous research we concentrated on post-operative material and developed the classifier, which discriminates the FTC and FTA, based on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) material. The classifier was based on expression of five genes and gave the promising sensitivity of 71% and specificity of 72%. The aim of the ...