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)] against epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR) in non-small cell lung carcinoma [ 34 ]. RET is a critical target for medullary thyroid cancer treatment [ 32 ]. Several small molecules are known to exert RET inhibition. Virtually all of them are believed
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included, for instance, patients with anaplastic and medullary thyroid cancer and addressed patients with first- and second-line treatment as a whole [ 8 - 10 , 16 ]. Still, our study seems to add to the interesting hypothesis that patients who have
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Introduction Multikinase inhibitors (MKIs) with strong anti-angiogenetic action are frequently used for the treatment of advanced radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (RAI-R DTC) or medullary thyroid cancers (MTCs) ( 1 , 2
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mutation-positive medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) or RET gene fusion-positive thyroid cancer. The early approval of these drugs was based on phase 1/2 data ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). Patients with thyroid cancer were one of the larger patient groups in the
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Epithelial cancers of the thyroid gland constitute the majority of thyroid malignancies (about 95%) and include papillary, follicular, hurtle cell, anaplastic, and medullary thyroid cancers. The nonepithelial cancers constitute less than 5% of all thyroid