Medullary thyroid carcinoma
Medullary thyroid cancer is not actually thyroid cancer. It is derived from the thyroid follicular cells (also called C cells) that secrete calcitonin. It is a neuroendocrine cell and has nothing to do with thyroid follicular cells.
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