Can medullary thyroid cancer be cured? What are the treatments for medullary thyroid cancer?

Can medullary thyroid cancer be cured? The small thyroid gland is a part that people easily overlook, but its importance and significance are very significant. In recent years, the incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing, posing a huge threat to people's health. Medullary thyroid cancer is a type of thyroid cancer. So, can medullary thyroid cancer be cured?

The main cause of medullary thyroid cancer is RET oncogene mutation. When symptoms such as unilateral or bilateral thyroid masses, breathing difficulties, dysphagia, hoarseness, tetany, and carcinoid syndrome occur, you should be alert to the occurrence of medullary thyroid cancer. Women, people aged between 30 and 60, and those with a family history of thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal tumors are susceptible to medullary thyroid cancer and should be careful to prevent it.

The doctor will choose one or more combined treatments based on the size of your thyroid nodules, your age at diagnosis, and whether there is cervical lymph node metastasis and distant metastasis:

1. Currently, surgery is the preferred treatment for MTC;

2. Other treatments include radiotherapy, chemotherapy and drug intervention;

3. Currently, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are considered to be palliative treatments only when control measures are ineffective;

4. New molecular targeted therapeutics for adult patients with advanced (metastatic) MTC;

5. Radioimmunotherapy and vaccination treatment have developed recently.

A large number of clinical studies have confirmed that if you still have persistently elevated blood calcitonin levels after surgery, but no clinical palpation of lesions and evidence of recurrence on imaging examinations (called clinically cured patients), the prognosis is good, and there is no significant difference in 5-, 10-, and 15-year survival rates compared with patients whose calcitonin levels have returned to normal. Therefore, patients with the above conditions do not need to be overly nervous.