Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most frequent subtype of thyroid cancers. Despite good prognosis in most cases, postsurgery recurrences and metastases can occur. Moreover, differential diagnosis between benign and malignant nodules is still challenging. Gaining knowledge about extracellular vesicles (EVs) in PTC could have a double benefit: a better understanding of PTC clinical behaviour, and the discovery of accessible (and accurate) diagnostic tools.</p...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most frequent histological subtype of thyroid cancers and BRAFV600E genetic alteration is found in 60% of this endocrine cancer. BRAFV600E tumors are associated with poor prognosis resistance to radioiodine therapy and tumor progression. Histological follow-up by anatomo-pathologists reveals that 2/3 of surgically-removed thyroid do not present malignant lesions. Continued fundamental research into the molecular me...