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Calcitonin
Calcitonin is a hormone produced by the thyroid gland which is distinct from thyroxine, the main hormone of the thyroid . It helps control the breakdown of bone and has been used to treat patients with osteoporosis. It less potent than most of the other drugs used to treat osteoporosis.
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A 47-year old asked:
What are the major effects of calcitonin?
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A 42-year old asked:
Which describes the medical use of calcitonin?
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A 38-year old asked:
What if given with calcitonin and increases the effectiveness?
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A 45-year old asked:
Can you tell me what happens when there is an increase in calcitonin.?
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A female asked:
What are the effects of too little and too much production of calcitonin?
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A 46-year old asked:
How calcitonin functions in the glands?
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A 39-year old asked:
What gland makes calcitonin? Why does level drop?
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A 43-year old asked:
What are the differences between calcitonin and calcitrol?
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A 45-year old asked:
Why don't you get a calcitonin insufficiency after thyroidectomy?
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A 42-year old female asked:
Is calcitonin 6.7 pg/ml considered high level and suspicious for cancer? I also have a node 7.7 mm
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A 51-year old female asked:
Is calcitonin nasal spray a anahistamen?
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A 38-year old asked:
How is calcitonin found in the thyroid gland?
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A 46-year old asked:
What is the data on salmon calcitonin tablets?
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A 37-year old male asked:
Does thyroid gland produce more th or calcitonin?
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A 38-year old asked:
Is there calcitonin hormone deficiency after a total thyroidectomy?
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A 40-year old male asked:
I broke my radius which did not form a soft callus after 8 weeks. I had a bone grafy three weeks ago. Could I benefit from calcitonin injections?
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A 35-year old asked:
Is prolia related to miacalcin (salmon calcitonin)?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Does an elevated level of thyroglobulin antibodies and calcitonin mean cancer?
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A 35-year old female asked about a 79-year old male:
Does vitamin k2 interact with miacalcin (salmon calcitonin)?
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A 20-year old male asked:
What hormones from the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and possibly thyroid cause calcitonin to be released?
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A 20-year old male asked:
What hormones cause calcitonin and parathyroid hormone to be released? I know blood ca level has to do with it, but what hormones cause their release?
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A 29-year old female asked:
What is my dr testing for with these tests? Gastrin, tryptase, calcitonin, chromogranin a. Histamine, 5-hiaa, cortisol, free, 24hr urine
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A 20-year old male asked:
Does calcitonin have a circadian rhythm, and does it interact with parathyroid hormone's?
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A 26-year old male asked:
A 0.08ml thyroid nodule grew to 1, 44ml over 7y and new 0.03ml nodule found. Hormones ok, taking 50mg levothyroxin, fnac done in 07 - benign, calcitonin 12.3ng/l. Should i get thyroidectomy?
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A 37-year old male asked:
Male. Suffer from Hashimoto's. TSH is normal, no nodules on the thyroid but very vascularised (irritated), TPO is high 535 UI/mL. I'm concerned about Calcitonin level which is high 12.04 pg/mL. Is cancer possible?
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A 32-year old asked:
What is required to convert vitiamin d to calcitoin?
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A 46-year old asked:
Is thyrocalcitonin an interchangable name for t3 (liothyronine)?
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A 40-year old asked:
Can any doc tell me what's the difference between thyroxine, thyrocalcitonin and triiodothyronine?
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