Endocrine Abstracts

Some thyroid neoplasms recur, metastasise, or become treatment-resistant, while the majority of these increasingly frequently reported cancers are indolent and readily cured. Standard histology is only partially successful in predicting behaviour and likely treatment response. What patients need is tissue based stratified medicine, principally to spare the majority from the relatively aggressive treatment that only the minority really need. Gene expression profiling, microRNA ...