Explore expert, evidence-based insights on medullary carcinoma of the thyroid and colon, including diagnosis and targeted therapies.

Learn the differences between papillary and medullary thyroid cancer, including how they develop, causes, treatments, and prognosis.

Caprelsa® (vandetanib) is a medicine that is used in adults and children above 5 years of age to treat aggressive and symptomatic medullary thyroid cancer 1. This is a new step forward in ESTEVE ...

What is thyroid cancer and what treatments are available? Read on to learn more about thyroid cancer, such as the symptoms, types, risk factors, and prognosis.

Dr Manisha Shah talks about the importance of genetic testing in medullary thyroid carcinoma and highlights management guidelines for this rare head and neck cancer.

“Poorly differentiated” refers to cancer cells that have more abnormalities and look less like normal cancer cells. Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer is uncommon, accounting for fewer than 5% of ...

Preventive nodal dissection in medullary thyroid cancer is uncommon, despite American Thyroid Association recommendations.

An age-related progression from C-cell hyperplasia to medullary thyroid carcinoma is associated with various germ-line mutations in the rearranged during transfection (RET) proto-oncogene that coul ...

As medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) derives from calcitonin-secreting parafollicular cells, measurement of serum calcitonin levels in patients who present with thyroid nodules might aid early ...

ALTHOUGH the first case of pheochromocytoma associated with thyroid carcinoma was reported in 19321 it was not until 1952 that this combination of neoplasms was mentioned as occurring with unusual ...

New guidelines designed to standardize and optimize the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma , an uncommon and challenging form of thyroid cancer, have ...