The parental burden of care of children with rare diseases is considerable and deserves due attention and support.
Two separate studies investigated the prognostic role of lymph node ratios in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma.
Surgical resection remains an important part of medullary thyroid carcinoma care, provided that the tumor is still resectable.
During the early stages of most clinical trials, medical researchers tend to recruit healthy adult males with no comorbidities. This is because they generally represent the safest segment of the population for experimental therapies to be tested on. In contrast, women of reproductive age tend to be the last segment of the population to be…
There are various options for physicians to diagnose MTC, from physical examination to an ultrasound scan to molecular imaging.
Previous to its widespread use as a cancer biomarker, including its role in raising suspicion of medullary thyroid cancer (MTC), calcitonin had an interesting history. In the Journal of Musculoskeletal Neuronal Interactions, Srinivasan and colleagues detailed the early history of calcitonin. It was first discovered as a blood-calcium lowering hormone in 1961. It has been…
A case study of a patient with benign medullary thyroid cancer highlights the importance of genetic testing in the diagnostic and treatment processes.
The movement to adopt a grading system for MTC is the result of years of research and is intended to make the care of patients with MTC more precise.
We look at how our understanding of medullary thyroid carcinoma has evolved over the last several decades, and what we now know about treating the cancer.
We take a look at epidemiological data on the global distribution of RET mutations in cases of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
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