Medullary sponge kidney, also called Cacchi-Ricci disease, causes cysts to form in the small tubes inside the kidneys. It is present at birth, but doctors do not know the cause. The cysts are usually ...

Medullary thyroid cancer is a rare form of thyroid cancer, accounting for 5 percent of thyroid cancer diagnoses. Detecting the cancer early can be difficult. Medullary thyroid cancer commonly advances ...

Caprelsa® (vandetanib) is a medicine that is used in adults and children above 5 years of age to treat aggressive and symptomatic medullary thyroid cancer1. This is a new step forward in ESTEVE's ...

A new report concludes that the 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) Management Guidelines for Adult Patients With Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated [papillary and follicular] Thyroid Cancer also ...

The newly released Revised American Thyroid Association (ATA) Guidelines for the Management of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma are an update to the guidelines first published in 2009 and cover everything ...

Medullary thyroid cancer is a rare, silent cancer that arises from thyroid C cells, which help control calcium metabolism. Patients often do not have symptoms until the disease is in advanced stages, ...

Background A 36-year-old black male with sickle-cell disease, asthma, and dyslipidemia presented with shortness of breath, chest pain, lethargy, and recent fever. Physical examination revealed mild ...

Eligible patients from the ZETA trial were divided into 4 disease severity subgroups: progression and symptoms, symptoms only, progression only, and no progression and no symptoms assessed at baseline ...

Advanced medullary thyroid cancer can cause problems with swallowing, voice changes, neck swelling, weight loss, and pain. Salivary drooling and internal bleeding are less common symptoms. Medullary ...