context inherited and sporadic medullary thyroid cancer (mtc) is an uncommon and medically challenging malignancy. even if the extent of initial surgery is deemed adequate, the recurrence rate remains high, up to 50% in most series. measurement of serum calcitonin is important in the follow-up of patients with mtc, and reliably reflects the existence of the disease. evidence acquisition there i...

Theranostic agents are critical for improving the diagnosis and treatment of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL). The peptidomimetic LLP2A is a novel peptide receptor radiotherapy candidate for treating NHL that expresses the activated α4β1 integrin. Tumor-bearing dogs are an excellent model of human NHL with similar clinical characteristics, behavior, and compressed clinical course. Canine in vivo imag...

Background: UBI 29-41 (a derivative of antimicrobial peptide ubiquicidin) labelled with 99mTc is reported to discriminate between bacterial infections and sterile inflammatory processes. In this study, three lyophilized kit were performed, one of them based on the direct labelling with only SnCl2 as reducing agent , and other two based on 6- hydrazinopyridine-3-carboxylic acid (HYNIC) and trici...