To date, at least 50 RET partner genes have been described in thyroid cancer, and the number has been rising steeply in recent years (Agrawal et al. 2014, Grubbs et al. 2015, Yakushina et al. 2017, Pekova et al. 2020, Lee et al. 2021, Rogounovitch et al. 2021, Yang et al. 2021, Franco et al. 2022, Wang et al. 2022). The gene discussed is RET; the disease is thyroid gland carcinoma.