Abstract
It was already mentioned in the previous chapter that many pathophysiological features of thyroid cancer can be detected with the refined techniques of modern pathology. This still somehow morphological approach to pathophysiology should be complemented by frequently kinetic studies of tumor cell metabolism if we really want to understand what is happening in a thyroid cancer and why. It is generally accepted that 3 major advances in methodology have produced the most important informations on this topic in recent years:
- a)
The widespread use of radiotracers to study a variety of metabolic phenomena in tumor tissue and their dynamic behaviour (Pochin, Thompson 1969, Ackermann, Marvin 1961).
- b)
The developments of analytical chemistry in general and especially in protein chemistry which allow us to define also structural abnormalities in tumor tissue and
- c)
the possibility to use both methods for the study of thyroid cancer not only in patients or experimental animals, but also in cell cultures of certain types of thyroid neoplasms (Caviedes, Stanbury 1976).
Keywords
Thyroid Hormone Thyroid Cancer Thyroid Carcinoma Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Parathyroid Adenoma
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