CALCITONIN IN BREAST AND LUNG CANCER

Autor: P. B. Greenberg, Leonora S. Galante, C. J. Hillyard, R. C. Coombes, I. MacIntyre
Rok vydání: 1976
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Zdroj: Clinical Endocrinology. 5:1-8
ISSN: 1365-2265
0300-0664
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.1976.tb03797.x
Popis: Immunoreactive calcitonin was found in extracts of seven out of eight consecutive breast carcinomas and four selected lung carcinomas, but not in extracts of benign breast lesions or normal tissues. This suggests that the high plasma calcitonin levels observed in patients with a wide variety of cancers reflect ectopic production of calcitonin by cancer tissue, and that the radioimmunoassay for calcitonin could prove to be of value in the detection and management of malignant disease, particularly breast cancer.
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