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Bekir Cakir
Turkey
Case Report
Anaplastic Cancer and Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the same Patient: Is it a Co-Incidence or a Process of Transformation? A Case Report
Author(s): Gulfem Kaya, Sefika Burcak Polat, Ersin Gurkan Dumlu, Hayriye Tatli, Reyhan Unlu Ersoy and Bekir Cakir
Gulfem Kaya, Sefika Burcak Polat, Ersin Gurkan Dumlu, Hayriye Tatli, Reyhan Unlu Ersoy and Bekir Cakir
Anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid gland is rare, but very aggressive, and the median survival is 3–5 months after establishing the diagnosis. The annual incidence in the USA is 1-2 cases per million populations. However, its incidence appears to be decreasing, while that of well-differentiated thyroid cancer is increasing. This report presents a patient with anaplastic thyroid cancer together with papillary carcinoma. A 62-year-old male visited our endocrinology clinic with a lump on the neck, palpable lymph nodes, and symptoms of compression. Fine-needle aspiration biopsies were inconclusive and he underwent surgery. Histopathology revealed intrathyroidal anaplastic carcinoma and papillary carcinoma in two distinct foci. Given the aggressive nature of the disease, there are few data on the tumor biology of anaplastic cancers; nevertheless, it is known that well-differentiated.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2167-7948.1000142