High prevalence of RET/PTC rearrangements in Ukrainian and Belarussian post-chernobyl thyroid papillary carcinomas: A strong correlation between RET/PTC3 and the solid-follicular variant

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 4232-4238

  Thomas, G A ^a   Bunnell, H ^a   Cook, H A ^a   Williams, E D ^a   Nerovnya, A ^b   Cherstvoy, E D ^b   Tronko, N D ^c   Bogdanova, T I ^c   Chiappetta, G ^d   Viglietto, G ^d   Pentimalli, F ^d   Salvatore, G ^e   Fusco, A ^f   Santoro, M ^e,g   Vecchio, G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^c V P Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Ukraine Academy of Medical Sciences   (Ukraine)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLID TUMOR; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; UKRAINE;

EID: 0033331028     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.84.11.4232     Document Type: Article

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