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familial medullary thyroid cancer  listen  (fuh-MIH-lee-ul MED-yoo-LAYR-ee THY-royd KAN-ser)

  An inherited form of medullary thyroid cancer (cancer that forms in the cells of the thyroid that make the hormone calcitonin).