The cure rate of patients with hereditary medullary thyroid carcionoma (MTC) can be decisively improved by screening for elevated calcitonin (Ctn) levels and RET gene mutations in patients from families affected by multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2), followed by prophylactic thyroidectomy in persons with mutated RET genes. In this long-term observational study, we investigated whether postoperative cures are indeed maintained decades after the procedure.
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