Objective The recent concept that oncogenes responsible for thyroid neoplastic
transformation are able to elicit an inflammatory protumourigenic microenvironment raises …

Chronic infection and inflammation contribute to around 25% of cancer cases worldwide.
While a direct link between several types of human malignancies and inflammation has now …

Some cancer types are strongly associated with chronic inflammatory or infectious diseases
whereas others are not, but an inflammatory component is present in most human neoplastic …

Cooccurrences of chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT) and thyroid cancer (DTC) have been
repeatedly reported. Both CLT and DTC, mainly papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), share …

Rearrangements of the RET receptor tyrosine kinase gene generating RET/PTC oncogenes
are specific to papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), the most frequent thyroid tumor. Here, we …

In the last decades, many studies conducted in vitro, and in vivo, have shown that thyroid
autoimmunity and thyroid cancer (TC)(mainly papillary TC) can be concomitant, even if the …

Context: RET/papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is a marker for papillary thyroid carcinoma, but
its specificity has been questioned because of the disputed identification of RET/PTC in …

The association between thyroid cancer and thyroid autoimmunity has long been suggested,
but remains to be elucidated for several decades. Here the data on this issue are updated by …

Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most prevalent malignant neoplasm that affects the endocrine
system. Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, is the …

RET/PTC rearrangements represent key genetic events involved in papillary thyroid
carcinoma (PTC) initiation. The aim of the present study was to identify the early changes in …