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Thyroid cancer
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Thyroid cancer
Thyroid cancer
is a
cancer
originating from
follicular
or
parafollicular
thyroid
cells. These cells give rise to both well-
differentiated
cancers—
papillary thyroid cancer
(PTC) and
follicular thyroid cancer
(FTC)—and
anaplastic thyroid cancer
(ATC), whose
anaplastic
cells are poorly differentiated. The second cell type, the C or parafollicular cell, produces the hormone
calcitonin
and is the cell of origin for
medullary thyroid cancer
(MTC).
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