Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Medullary Thyroid Cancer: What Has Changed in Recent Years?

ABSTRACT: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a neoplasm originating from parafollicular C cells. MTC is a rare disease, but its prognosis is less favorable than that of well-differentiated thyroid cancers. To improve the prognosis of patients with MTC, early diagnosis and prompt therapeutic management are crucial. In the following paper, recent advances in laboratory and imaging diagnostics and also pharmacological and surgical therapies of MTC are discussed. Currently, a thriving direction of development for laboratory diagnostics is immunohistochemistry. The primary imaging modality in the diagnosis of MTC is the ultrasound, but opportunities for development are seen primarily in nuclear medicine techniques. Surgical management is the primary method of treating MTCs. There are numerous publicati

SUBMITTER: Kaliszewski K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9332800 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature