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familial medullary thyroid cancer

Definition / meaning of familial medullary thyroid cancer

An inherited form of medullary thyroid cancer (cancer that forms in the cells of the thyroid that make the hormone calcitonin).

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The Web site of the National Cancer Institute (http://www.cancer.gov/)

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