Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The utility of serum calcitonin has been evaluated in a series of prospective, nonrandomized studies suggest that the use of routine serum calcitonin for screening may detect C-cell hyperplasia and medullary thyroid cancer at an earlier stage and overall survival may be improved. Elisei et al. estimated that routine measurement of plasma calcitonin in thyroid nodule patients would yield an additional 2.2 life-years per positive patient.<p class="abstex...