A Large Nonmetastatic Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer with Complete Thyroidal Confinement
Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is rare but extremely aggressive, which accounts for about 2% of all thyroid cancers yet nearly 50% of thyroid-cancer-associated deaths in the United States. The median survival time from diagnosis is 5 months, with a 1-year survival rate of only 20%. We report here a...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2011
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170804/ |