Cure and survival of sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma following systematic preoperative calcitonin screening.

Francesca TorresanCaterina MianElisabetta CavedonMaurizio Iacobone

Published in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery (2019)

The outcome of sporadic MTC improved in the new millennium; diagnosis was achieved earlier, at a less advanced stage. Routine preoperative calcitonin screening may have contributed to improve cure and survival rates.

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