| Literature DB >> 16029117 |
Herbert Chen1, Muthusamy Kunnimalaiyaan, Jamie J Van Gompel.
Abstract
Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is a prototypic neuroendocrine tumor of the thyroid C cells. Other than surgery, there are no curative therapies for MTC. In this review, we detail recent studies that suggest that targeting specific signaling pathways may be a viable strategy to control MTC tumor progression. Specifically, we discuss the role of the raf-1 and achaete-scute homologue-1 pathways in the MTC tumor growth and differentiation.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16029117 DOI: 10.1089/thy.2005.15.511
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Thyroid ISSN: 1050-7256 Impact factor: 6.568