HORMONAL MANIFESTATIONS OF THYROID CANCER ASSOCIATED WITH AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS

In medical practice, early diagnosis of CT is difficult because the neoplasm coexists or develops against the background of nodular-inflammatory thyroid pathologies, which have a slow evolution, CT is often associated with thyroiditis. The association of thyroid carcinoma with autoimmune thyroiditis remains debatable. In the literature, this combination is noted in 1% to 75% of cases. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the number of thyroid cancers developed against the background of autoimmune thyroiditis, this being explained by improved diagnostic methods, living environment and increasing the number of elderly people. The relationship between inflammation and cancer is known to be that patients with autoimmune thyroiditis have a higher risk of developing thyroid cancer. The literature does not fully elucidate the hormonal peculiarities of thyroid cancer associated with autoimmune thyroiditis have not been studied yet in the Repulic Of Moldova