Significats de medullary thyroid en anglès

Somatostatin analogs are promising agents in the treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma.

Another 20 patients had medullary thyroid cancers with RET point mutations.

We report the case of a woman with a sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma.

Preliminary clinical results of radioimmunotherapy of medullary thyroid carcinomas and lung cancers look promising.

The biochemical features of medullary thyroid carcinoma include the production of calcitonin and carcinoembryogenic antigen.

A total thyroidectomy had been carried out on a 19-year-old man with familial medullary thyroid carcinoma.

The clinical approach for medullary thyroid carcinoma is based on pathological findings following fine needle aspiration biopsy.

Several families have also been identified in which medullary thyroid carcinoma is inherited, but pheochromocytoma is not seen.

Cabozantinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved for the treatment of patients with progressive, metastatic medullary thyroid cancer.

Over expression of Id-1 has been reported in certain tumors, such as breast, esophageal, pancreatic and medullary thyroid cancers.

It needs to be distinguished from other entities such as parathyroid adenoma, papillary thyroid carcinoma and medullary thyroid carcinoma.

A perspective of recent trials and research into novel treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma is summarized in the following paper.

Major medullary thyroid tumours are usually connected to high doses of circulating calcitonin, in fact non-secretory variants have hardly been described.

The diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma by biochemical and genetic testing is possible in families with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2.

Phase I and II clinical studies support significant antitumor activity, particularly in medullary thyroid cancer and cancers metastatic to the bone.

Combined biochemical and genetic screening for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 is important and effective for the cure of medullary thyroid carcinoma.