Calcitonin (thyrocalcitonin)
Author: Otari Nergadze,
Calcitonin (thyrocalcitonin)
Indications for calcitonin test:
- Monitoring of medullary thyroid carcinoma
- Screening for high-risk groups and diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma
Calcitonin (thyrocalcitonin) — is a polypeptide with a molecular weight of 3500 Da, containing 32 amino acids. Produced by C-cells of the thyroid gland.
Norms of calcitonin in men — 2-48 ng/l, in women — 2-10 ng/L. Increased concentration of calcitonin detected when carcinoma of the thyroid gland, may also occur during pregnancy and benign lung diseases.
See also
- Complete blood count (CBC):
- Urinalysis:
- Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis
- Biochemical markers of bone remodeling and diseases
- Markers of autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTDs)
- Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
- Lipoprotein(a), Lp(a)
- Semen analysis (sperm count test)
- Tumor markers tests (cancer biomarkers):
- β-2 microglobulin (beta-2)
- Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)
- Squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC)
- S100 protein tumormarker
- Calcitonin
- Mucin-like carcinoma-associated antigen (MCA)
- Neuron-specific enolase (NSE)
- Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test
- Cancer associated antigen 549 (CA 549)
- CA 19-9, CA 72-4, CA 50, CA 15-3 and CA 125 tumor markers (cancer antigens)
- Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)
- Thyroglobulin (Tg)
- Tissue polypeptide antigens (ТРА, TPS)
- Cytokeratin-19 fragment (CYFRA 21-1)
- Human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG)
