Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: According to a limited number of specialized hospital beds for radioiodine therapy in some countries, fractionated dose of radioiodine may be considered as the ablation therapy of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Aim of the study was to compare the late effects of ablation therapy with single and fractionated dose of radioiodine in patients with DTC.Patients and metods: Patients with DTC treated with one (131)I dose of 2.2 GBq or fracti...

Introduction: Neuroendocrine tumors of the lungs comprise 20% of primary lung tumors. Nestin is an intermediate filament protein, expressed in stem cells during fetal development. It is also described as a potential cancer stem cell marker, angiogenesis marker and indicator of poorer survival probability for patients with some types of malignancies. Adversely, Klotho gene is a potential tumor suppressor. Aberrant expression of Klotho have been recently noticed in a number of c...