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ea0029p1808 | Thyroid cancer | ICEECE2012

Glucagonlike Peptide-1 Receptor Imaging as diagnostic tool in patients with Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (MTC) - preliminary report.

Sowa-Staszczak A. , Pach D. , Jabrocka-Hybel A. , Tomaszuk M. , Przybylik-Mazurek E. , Mikolajczak R. , Janota B. , Hubalewska-Dydejczyk A.

Introduction and aim: MTC accounts for 5–10% of all thyroid cancers. Because of elevation postoperative calcitonin, short doubling time of calcitonin and no disease in available imaging techniques in some MTC patients, searching for new targets for radioisotope diagnostics is necessary.Among other overexpression of GLP-1 receptors have been shown on parafollicular thyroid C-cells.The aim of this study was to present the first ...