Treatment strategy for medullary thyroid cancer
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-422X.2014.08.008
- VernacularTitle:甲状腺髓样癌的治疗
- Author:
Yalan BI
;
Yunxiao MENG
;
Quancai CUI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Thyroid neoplasms;
Surgical procedures;
Radioisotopes;
Radiotherapy;
Molecular targe-ted therapy
- From:
Journal of International Oncology
2014;(8):582-585
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Medullary thyroid cancer is a kind of rare malignancy arising from unregulated replication of parafollicular C cells of the thyroid gland. Therapeutic approaches to patients with medullary thyroid cancer have their own features,which are different from those to patients with papillary thyroid cancer,the most com-mon type of thyroid cancer. The targeted therapy using tyrosine kinase inhibitors has brought new hope for the management of aggressive medullary thyroid cancer in recent years.
