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- Title
Familial Occurrence of Differentiated (Non-Medullary) Thyroid Cancer.
- Authors
Nĕmec, J.; Soumar, J.; Zamrazil, V.; Pohunková, D.; Motlik, K.; Miřejovský, P.
- Abstract
Differentiated thyroid cancers were found in mother and son. The diagnosis was made first in the boy where papillary and follicular cancer with lymph node involvement and lung metastatic dissemination was diagnosed at the age of 9. Treatment by surgery, radioiodine and thyroid hormones was highly effective. 1 year later, thyroid surgery was performed on his mother but the diagnosis of poorly differentiated follicular thyroid cancer was made only 4 years later when the primary tumour was already unresectable and distant metastases present. In spite of treatment, the disease followed a lethal course in the mother. The familial occurrence of'differentiated thyroid cancer is extremely rare and this report is the first where neither previous radiation exposure nor familial colonic polyposis were detected. Copyright © 1975 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Oncology, 1975, Vol 32, Issue 3/4, p151
- ISSN
0030-2414
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000225061