… PTC and PTC-derived anaplastic thyroid cancer and is a specific diagnostic marker for this
… Over the last 2 years, substantial work has also described BRAF mutations in thyroid cancer, …

… The rising incidence of thyroid cancer is almost entirely attributed to the increased diagnosis
… mutation of the BRAF gene is of particular importance in human cancers, especially in those …

… in detecting BRAF mutation on FNAB … thyroid cancer or for suspicion of cancer, we performed
preoperative FNAB and, using the colorimetric mutation detection method, identified BRAF …

… mutation, it may be reasonable to weigh more heavily toward PET scans than toward
radioiodine body scans in deciding the diagnostic imaging modalities in a BRAF mutation-positive …

… follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) tumors for the presence of BRAF … whether there is a BRAF
V600E genotype-histologic subtype … incidence of thyroid cancer, mostly due to the diagnosis of …

… Thyroid cancer recurrence was confirmed by positive radioiodine body scan, serum … to be
thyroid cancer. Children under the age of 18 yr at diagnosis of thyroid cancer were excluded. …

… detecting this BRAF mutation has not yet been determined. In the present study, the sensitivity,
specificity and feasibility of diagnostic methods for BRAF mutations were assessed. BRAF …

… confirmatory histopathologic diagnosis and appropriate image of the remnant PTC, it is
reasonable to accept a 131 I uptake outside of the thyroid bed on posttreatment diagnostic whole …

… 4 Kimura ETNikiforova MNZhu ZKnauf JANikiforov YEFagin JA2003High prevalence of
BRAF mutations in thyroid cancer: genetic evidence for constitutive activation of the RET/PTC-…

… All patients were diagnosed and underwent surgery of the thyroid in the years 2002–2005.
The study was approved by our institution’s Ethics and Research Committees and was in …