Anaplastic thyroid cancer: current capabilities of an oncologist

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Continuous development of oncology as a science in the last decades and years led to noticeable improvement in treatment outcomes for patients with various malignant tumors. Diagnostics, surgery, radiotherapy significantly contributed to this improvement, however they cannot be compared to the progress achieved through advancements in our knowledge of genetic structure of tumors and subsequent advancements in pharmacology which allowed to achieve qualitatively better survival in oncological patients. These advancements did not leave out such a serious and highly lethal, though fortunately rare, disease as anaplastic thyroid cancer. This article is dedicated to the possibilities of using checkpoint inhibitors in treatment of this pathology to increase expected life span of the patients.

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A. L. Pylev

Center for Innovative Medical Technologies

Author for correspondence.
Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8525-2906

22B Dukhovskoy pereulok, Moscow 115191

Russian Federation

D. S. Romanov

Center for Innovative Medical Technologies; Central Clinical Hospital of Russian Railways-Medicine; A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: romanovronc@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3942-4102

Denis Sergeevich Romanov

22B Dukhovskoy pereulok, Moscow 115191

2 Budayskaya St., Moscow 129128

20/1 Delegatskaya St., Moscow 127473

Russian Federation

N. V. Lasunin

N.N. Burdenko National Medical Research Center of Neurosurgery, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6169-4929

16 4th Tverskaya-Yamskaya St., Moscow 125047

Russian Federation

D. A. Balaeva

Central Clinical Hospital of Russian Railways-Medicine; A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9106-5277

2 Budayskaya St., Moscow 129128

20/1 Delegatskaya St., Moscow 127473

Russian Federation

M. P. Kazakov

Center for Innovative Medical Technologies

Email: fake@neicon.ru

22B Dukhovskoy pereulok, Moscow 115191

Russian Federation

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