CH Lee's research while affiliated with Taipei Veterans General Hospital and other places

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Article
Previously, we and others have found that the prognosis of patients with well differentiated thyroid cancer is related to patient age and gender. In this study, we examined estrogen and glucocorticoid receptors in thyroid cancers and adjacent non-neoplastic thyroid tissues from 31 Chinese patients. Our results indicate that the level of estrogen an...

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... In differentiated thyroid follicular tumors, the expression of ERα has been associated with well-differentiated tumors and reduced incidence of disease recurrence [54]. ERα protein [55] and ERα mRNA [19, 56] are expressed in normal and neoplastic follicular cells of the thyroid. Also, the expression of ERα and ERβ was detected in human medullary thyroid cancer [34] with an increased ratio of ERα/ERβ, suggesting a possible role in tumor growth and progression. ...