Endocrine Abstracts

Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma (ATC) is the most aggressive thyroid gland malignancy characterized by undifferentiated morphology. It has been suggested that cancer stem cells (CSCs) might play a central role in ATC. Previously on the basis of CD133 positivity, our group suggested that CD133+ cancer stem cells (CSCs) might play a central role in ATC. Here we analyzed a panel of different stem cell markers in order to identify a peculiar CSC pattern in ATC....