Question 179 · LEK · Thyroid cancer
Indicate the false statement concerning thyroid cancer:
- A. papillary cancers rarely occur in patients older than 40 and rarely give distant metastases.
- B. follicular cancer most frequently occur in patients aged 30-50 and spreads mainly through blood vessels.
- C. anaplastic cancer does not infiltrate surrounding tissues and rarely metastases to the lungs.
- D. medullary cancer secretes calcitonin.
- E. medullary cancer can occur as a part of MEN II syndrome.
Hint
Recall the biological behaviour of the most aggressive type of thyroid cancer.
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