Autophagy and thyroid cancer / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

The incidence rate of thyroid cancer is very high with the first place of the incidence in the whole endocrine system of malignant tumors,and about 1％ from the incidence of systemic malignant tumors.Thyroid carcinoma is mainly divided into four types:papillary thyroid carcinoma,medullary thyroid carcinoma,undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma,and follicular thyroid carcinoma.Recently,the effect of autophagy on the incidence of thyroid cancer as well as the role of macrophages in the treatment of thyroid cancer has become a hot research.Here,a brief review will be carried out on the relationship between autophagy and thyroid cancer.