"Carcinoma, Medullary" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A carcinoma composed mainly of epithelial elements with little or no stroma. Medullary carcinomas of the breast constitute 5%-7% of all mammary carcinomas; medullary carcinomas of the thyroid comprise 3%-10% of all thyroid malignancies. (From Dorland, 27th ed; DeVita Jr et al., Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 3d ed, p1141; Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
| Descriptor ID |
D018276
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.557.465.625.650.240.315 C04.557.470.200.025.370.315 C04.557.470.615.315 C04.557.580.625.650.240.315
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| Concept/Terms |
Carcinoma, Medullary- Carcinoma, Medullary
- Carcinomas, Medullary
- Medullary Carcinoma
- Medullary Carcinomas
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Carcinoma, Medullary".
- Diseases [C]
- Neoplasms [C04]
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type [C04.557]
- Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal [C04.557.465]
- Neuroectodermal Tumors [C04.557.465.625]
- Neuroendocrine Tumors [C04.557.465.625.650]
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine [C04.557.465.625.650.240]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.465.625.650.240.315]
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial [C04.557.470]
- Carcinoma [C04.557.470.200]
- Adenocarcinoma [C04.557.470.200.025]
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine [C04.557.470.200.025.370]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.470.200.025.370.315]
- Neoplasms, Ductal, Lobular, and Medullary [C04.557.470.615]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.470.615.315]
- Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue [C04.557.580]
- Neuroectodermal Tumors [C04.557.580.625]
- Neuroendocrine Tumors [C04.557.580.625.650]
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine [C04.557.580.625.650.240]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.580.625.650.240.315]
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Carcinoma, Medullary".
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Carcinoma, Medullary" by people in Profiles.
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Comprehensive genomic profiling of metastatic collecting duct carcinoma, renal medullary carcinoma, and clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Urol Oncol. 2021 06; 39(6):367.e1-367.e5.
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Management of hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma. Endocrine. 2016 Jul; 53(1):7-17.
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Genetic screening of patients with medullary thyroid cancer in a referral center in Greece during the past two decades. Eur J Endocrinol. 2015 Apr; 172(4):501-9.
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Biochemical cure after reoperations for medullary thyroid carcinoma: a meta-analysis. Ann Surg Oncol. 2015 Jan; 22(1):96-102.
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Exomic sequencing of medullary thyroid cancer reveals dominant and mutually exclusive oncogenic mutations in RET and RAS. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2013 Feb; 98(2):E364-9.
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Phase II clinical trial of sorafenib in metastatic medullary thyroid cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2010 May 10; 28(14):2323-30.
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Sporadic and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma: state of the art. Surg Clin North Am. 2009 Oct; 89(5):1193-204.
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Gender is an age-specific effect modifier for papillary cancers of the thyroid gland. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Apr; 18(4):1092-100.
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Common variants on chromosome 5p12 confer susceptibility to estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Nat Genet. 2008 Jun; 40(6):703-6.
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Expression analysis of kidney-specific cadherin in a wide spectrum of traditional and newly recognized renal epithelial neoplasms: diagnostic and histogenetic implications. Am J Surg Pathol. 2007 Oct; 31(10):1528-33.