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Chirurgia Bucharest · Mar 2006
ReviewDiagnostic and therapeutic aspects in medullary thyroid carcinoma.
- M Safioleas, M Stamatakos, E Karampali, N Rompoti, G Mouzopoulos, and N Lygidakis.
- 2nd Department of Propedeutic Surgery, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Greece.
- Chirurgia Bucharest. 2006 Mar 1; 101 (2): 121-6.
AbstractMedullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare and particularly aggressive type of thyroid cancer with several distinctive features that distinguish its management from other thyroid cancers. Since MTC was first recognised as a distinct tumour in 1959, it became clear that MTC is more difficult to cure than differentiated thyroid cancer and has higher rates of recurrence and mortality, but it is usually a slow growing tumor compared with other malignancies. In addition, unlike differentiated thyroid cancer, there is no known effective systemic therapy for MTC.
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