Abstract
Thyroid cancer is the most important endocrine cancer with increasing incidence. While thyroid cancers, especially papillary thyroid cancers, are known to exhibit generally a favorable outcome with excellent survival rates, some thyroid cancers are more aggressive with a poor prognosis. Several different biomarkers have been introduced for the diagnosis of disease, identification of tumor load, assessment of therapy response, and the detection of recurrence during follow-up of the thyroid cancer patients. This chapter gives a brief overview of the circulating biomarkers used in thyroid cancer patients.
Keywords: Biomarkers, Calcitonin, Carcinoembryonic antigen, Liquid biopsy, Thyroglobulin, Thyroid cancer.
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