Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common type of thyroid cancer (70-80% of all thyroid cancer). It is a differentiated type of carcinoma, it affects women between 30-60 years old, 3 times more often than males. Clinical outcome in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma is often favorable. Glucocorticoids (GC) play major role in the physiologic stress response. However chronic exposure to glucocorticoids as seen in Cushing’s disease (CD) has det...