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The Impact Of Family History On Medullary Thyroid Cancer In Men2a Patients, Nicole D. Mohrbacher May 2013

The Impact Of Family History On Medullary Thyroid Cancer In Men2a Patients, Nicole D. Mohrbacher

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The American Thyroid Association recently classified all MEN2A-associated codons into increasing risk levels A-C and stated that some patients may delay prophylactic thyroidectomy if certain criteria are met. One criterion is a less aggressive family history of MTC but whether families with the same mutated codon have variable MTC aggressiveness is not well described. We developed several novel measures of MTC aggressiveness and compared families with the same mutated codon to determine if there is significant inter-familial variability. Pedigrees of families with MEN2A were reviewed for codon mutated and proportion of RET mutation carriers with MTC. Individuals with MTC were …