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Why isn’t calcitonin testing performed as a routine screen?

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Why isn’t calcitonin testing performed as a routine screen?

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C-cell hyperplasia and medullary thyroid cancer are both sufficiently rare that it is not useful to screen for calcitonin in the general population.

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