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Inflammatory conditions in selected organs increase the risk of cancer. An inflammatory
component is present also in the microenvironment of tumours that are not epidemiologically …

Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine cancer, of which the incidence has
dramatically increased worldwide in the past few decades. The reasons for the observed …

Sažetak Accumulating evidence shows that chronic inflammation is associated to increased
risk of cancer. An inflammatory component is present also in the microenvironment of …

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 …

Oncocytic tumors are a distinctive class of proliferative lesions composed of cells with a
striking degree of mitochondrial hyperplasia that are particularly frequent in the thyroid …

Medullary thyroid carcinomas (MTC) arise from thyroid parafollicular, calcitonin-producing C-
cells and can occur either as sporadic or as hereditary diseases in the context of familial …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is frequently associated with RET gene rearrangements
that generate the so-called RET/PTC oncogenes. In this review, we examine the data about …

Selected inflammatory conditions increase the risk of cancer. An inflammatory component is
present also in the micro-environment of tumours epidemiologically unrelated to …

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 …