… Survival of these medullary thyroid carcinoma patients appears better than expected even
in non-cured … Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare disease which originates from …

… thyroid carcinoma (MTC) subgroups in relation to the general population is poorly described.
Data on the factors predicting long-term biochemical cure … and long-term biochemical cure. …

… node dissection required for biochemical cure has not been … was to determine the rate of
biochemical cure, as defined by … compare the rate of biochemical cure between targeted lymph …

… thyroid carcinoma (MTC). Although the prognosis of patients with persistent hypercalcitoninemia
may be acceptable, the biochemical cure … further improve biochemical cure and survival …

… cured by less aggressive procedures. During the last 3 years, we did extensive research in
order to detect disseminated thyroid carcinoma … of patients with medullary thyroid carcinomas. …

… cured biochemically (It was a 58-year-old lady with a 2 cm carcinoma that grew locally beyond
the thyroid … And even extended operative procedures rarely lead to biochemical cure. Only …

… As long as tumour deposits are confined to the thyroid gland, total thyroidectomy leads to …
biochemical cure. Once the tumour has spread beyond the thyroid gland, the biochemical cure …

… [6••] biochemical cure rates significantly declined in patients with basal serum calcitonin
levels before surgery that are more than 500 pg/ml. If the serum calcitonin levels before surgery …

… , although it rarely results in biochemical cure. In keeping with this conclusion, only one
patient in our series benefited from reoperation in terms of biochemical cure (reoperation of local …

… cured DTC patients with a median duration of cure of 6.34 yr (range 0.3–41.8) and studied the
contribution of disease-specific, biochemical, … quality of life was duration of cure. Quality-of-…