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Inherited thyroid tumours are an important group which need clarification. This is partly because of the common use of the term Familial Non-Medullary Thyroid Cancer when some of the specific entities included under this heading really represent inherited benign tumours with a risk of progression to malignancy. The subject is briefly reviewed, and one syndromic and one non-syndromic type of inherited thyroid tumours of follicular cell origin discussed in more detail to emphasise the point that each of these groups need to be treated as separate entities.
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Thanks are due to Helen Bardwell for technical help and to the estate of the late Mr John Williams for financial support.
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Williams, D. Inherited thyroid tumours. Endocrine 68, 271–273 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-020-02252-1
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