Endocrine Abstracts

BackgroundPapillary thyroid cancer (PTC), has a slow progression and good prognosis and is often treatable, but may show recurrence and metastasis. Age, sex, histopathologic variants of PTC, lymphatic or vascular invasion, lymph node involvement are among the factors affecting the occurrence of metastasis. Endocan is produced in vascular endothelial cells, epithelial cells lining the distal tubules of the kidney, submucosal glands of bronchus and lungs. ...