“…Activation of these signaling pathways produces cellular proliferation, which might favor cancer progression, and blockade of apoptotic processes and metastasis (Davis et al, 2016;Mousa et al, 2012Mousa et al, , 2018Weingarten et al, 2018). Moreover, separated evidences indicate that differences in deiodinase expression and differential splicing have been found in several cancers (Meyer et al, 2008) and increased TSHR expression have been detected in liver, ovarian, lung, and breast cancers (Table 1) (Govindaraj et al, 2012;Gyftaki et al, 2014;Kim et al, 2012;Shih et al, 2018;Tian et al, 2010). Moreover, it is known that TSHR is functional in the majority of human HCCs and that high TSHR expression is correlated with unfavorable postoperative outcome in patients with HCC receiving surgical treatment (Shih et al, 2018).…”