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Since anaplastic thyroid carcinoma has an extremely dire prognosis, multimodality therapy is performed. The diagnosis can be divided into two stages: “qualitative diagnosis” during which suspicion of anaplastic carcinoma is confirmed and definitive diagnosis is made and “quantitative diagnosis” during which strategies are established for multimodality therapy [1].
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Suzuki, S., Fukunari, N., Kameyama, K., Miyakawa, M., Tanaka, K., Hibi, Y. (2013). Column 6. Diagnosis of Anaplastic Carcinoma. In: Takami, H., Ito, Y., Noguchi, H., Yoshida, A., Okamoto, T. (eds) Treatment of Thyroid Tumor. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54049-6_22
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