Mice were treated with doxycycline for one week to develop thyroid cancer [19], and the expression levels of CCL2, CSF-1, LGALS3BP, INPP5D and CCL7, together with that of the chemokine receptors CCR2 and CSF1R, were measured in cancer specimens by quantitative RT-PCR. Here, CCL2 is linked to thyroid gland carcinoma.