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Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, 2006 The goal in managing patients who have MTC is to detect and surgically remove disease at an early stage. Tumor marker-based biochemical screening and DNA-based genetic screening have created the opportunity for effective prophylactic surgery in patients at risk for hereditary MTC.
Y Nancy, You +3 more
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Oncology Times, 2013 Medullary thyroid cancer is rare, in 25 % of cases genetically determined (multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2), and should be treated by a specialized multidisciplinary team in the Cancer Center. In most cases, total thyroidectomy and at least central compartment lymph node dissection are required.
Barney Harrison, Bruno Carnaille
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Breast metastasis from medullary thyroid carcinoma: a report of a case
Surgical Case Reports, 2021 Background Metastasis to the breast is rare. We herein report a patient with metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma to the breast for whom measuring the calcitonin level was an important clue to the correct diagnosis.
Yoko Omi +6 more
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Ukrainian Scientific Medical Youth Journal, 2021 the aim of the stydy was to analyze the detectability of medullary thyroid metastases in patients at treatment and diagnostic stages, to investigate the applicability of serum calcitonin level as predictor of possible presence of medullary thyroid ...
Volodymyr Palamarchuk +6 more
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Detection rate of FNA cytology in medullary thyroid carcinoma. a meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2015 Background: The early detection of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) can improve patient prognosis, because histological stage and patient age at diagnosis are highly relevant prognostic factors. As a consequence, delay in the diagnosis and/or incomplete
Anna, Crescenzi +10 more
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Effects of marital status on survival of medullary thyroid cancer stratified by age
Cancer Medicine, 2021 Marital status has emerged as an important influence on several cancer outcomes, but its role in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) remains unclear. This study was to explore the effects of marital status on the prognosis of MTC patients and to determine ...
Lei Ai +11 more
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The Oncologist, EarlyView., 2021 Abstract Background Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) standard of care includes multikinase inhibitors (MKIs), which can exacerbate disease‐related diarrhea, primarily because of non‐RET kinase inhibition. We report diarrhea and other patient‐reported outcomes (PROs) with selpercatinib, a highly selective RET inhibitor, among patients with RET‐mutant MTC ...
Lori J. Wirth +10 more
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External radiotherapy of thyroid cancer [PDF]
, 2001 Differentiated thyroid cancer comprises papillary, mixed papillary-follicular and follicular adenocarcinomas. They are mostly hormone-sensitive and respond to thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) suppression. The standard treatment is total thyroidectomy. I-
Dühmke, Eckhart, Pollinger, B.
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Risk Patterns of Distant Metastases in Follicular, Papillary and Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Hormone and Metabolic Research, 2021 This study of 542 patients with follicular thyroid cancer, 366 patients with the follicular variant and 1452 patients with the classical variant of papillary thyroid cancer, and 819 patients with sporadic medullary thyroid cancer operated at a tertiary ...
A. Machens +3 more
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Combination of medullary thyroid cancer and renal cell carcinoma in one patient
Клиническая и экспериментальная тиреоидология, 2018 Patients who received treatment for the first malignant neoplasm remain in the group at increased risk of developing a second primary tumor throughout their later life.
Yuliya A. Dolinskaya +4 more
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