Title : Treatment of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. Value of calcitonin as tumour marker.

Pub. Date : 1979

PMID : 543445






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1 Changes in immunoreactive serum calcitonin were measured in 11 patients with medullary carcinoma of the thyroid, before and after surgery, external high-voltage irradiation, 131I therapy, and chemotherapy. Iodine-131 calcitonin related polypeptide alpha Homo sapiens
2 Contrary to previous reports, treatment with 131I resulted in a positive effect on serum calcitonin and diarrhoea, and in one patient with bone metastases these disappeared. Iodine-131 calcitonin related polypeptide alpha Homo sapiens