作者: Fabio Pomerri , Marco Boscaro , Gino Marioni , Pier Franco Conte , Ambrogio Fassina
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摘要: Background: Medullary Thyroid Carcinomas (MTC) are rare tumors that occur either sporadically or in a familiar form. It comprises 5-10% of all thyroid cancers. Except for some new drugs tyrosine kinase inhibitors family effective metastatic disease, multiple conventional chemotherapeutic regimens have been used without significant success and treatment with somatostatin analogues is still discussed. Patients methods: We report our experience alternating Octreotide Lanreotide MTC. In the period June 2011-May 2012 seven patients medullary cancer were treated. evaluated clinical biochemical response according to CEA, Calcitonin, Chromogranin A, NSE levels after six courses alternated therapy. Results: The was well tolerated, however, clear evidence clinical/biochemistry/radiological efficacy has not