BRAF and differentiated thyroid carcinoma: A recent retrospective study of 64 sequential patients in the Philippines who underwent thyroidectomy in 2016 showed that 12/17 patients who had papillary thyroid carcinoma harbored a BRAF V600E mutation with extrathyroidal extension in 7/18 patients, multifocality in 6/18 patients, and lymph node involvement in 8/18 patients (27).