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Calcitonin, a regulator of bone homeostasis, can be used in the treatment of Paget’s disease and postmenopausal osteoporosis. Calcitonin is diagnostically useful in the identification of medullary thyroid carcinoma and is also elevated in other carcinomas for example, those of the prostate, lung, colon, breast, and pancreas). Procalcitonin levels are raised in sepsis caused by bacteria and fungi and may be diagnostically useful for detecting infections.
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