The impact of preoperative calcitonin screening on the prognosis of patients with medullary thyroid cancer: a retrospective multicenter cohort study

• Published in: Endocrine Vol. 85; no. 2; pp. 827 - 836
• Main Authors: Hou, Yingtong, Yang, Yu, Chen, Gang, Long, Jianyan, He, Yufei, Xiong, Dandan, Pang, Yuyan, Li, Qi, Dong, Guojie, Qiao, Siqi, Chen, Wenke, Li, Xuyang, Zhang, Jiayuan, Xu, Tianyi, Chen, Xinwen, Lai, Fenghua, Guan, Haixia, Lin, Bo, Liu, Yihao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.08.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Calcitonin; Calcitonin - blood; Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine - blood; Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine - diagnosis; Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine - mortality; Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine - surgery; Cohort analysis; Diabetes; Endocrinology; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Internal Medicine; Lymph nodes; Male; Medical prognosis; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; multidisciplinary; Original Article; Patients; Preoperative Care - methods; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; Science; Survival; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid Neoplasms - blood; Thyroid Neoplasms - diagnosis; Thyroid Neoplasms - mortality; Thyroid Neoplasms - surgery; Thyroidectomy; Calcitonin screening; Medullary thyroid cancer; Prognosis

Purpose There is still controversy in different guidelines regarding the necessity of routine preoperative calcitonin (Ctn) testing in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). The level of preoperative Ctn may influence the extent of surgery. Methods This retrospective multicenter cohort study involved 149 M...