Filicular Thyroid Cancer

Medullary thyroid cancer comes from peripilicular sea cells. 50% of medulary thyroid cancer secrete c a and 20% secondary to germ line mutations in the ret proto oncogine. The remainder, though, are sporadic. And doing things like ruling out feo chromocytomas before proceeding with your resection of your medullary cancer is very important. How do we follow these spaciens? So again, looking back to the patho physiologyf these medullary thyroid cancers, you're going to survey with calcitonan and c e a levels.