A Patient with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2B who Survived 6 Years Longer than Medically Expected by the Treatment with Citric Acid that He Received View PDF

Alberto Halabe Bucay
Medicine, Hospital Angeles Lomas, Mexico

Published on: 2014-12-22

Abstract

This article describes the case of a male patient diagnosed with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B who was treated with citric acid when he was 10 years old, the limit for survival for this disease, and he has survived in excellent conditions for 6 years.

Keywords

Genetics, Hematological sciences, Microbiology, Nephrology, Neurosciences, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics

Introduction

In March 2009 I published in the journal Medical Hypotheses, from Elsevier, the case of a 10 years old male patient with a diagnosis of invasive multiple endocrine neoplasia 2B with elevated calcitonin regarding to an unresectable medullary thyroid cancer, which decreased more than 50% with a treatment based on citric acid orally that the patient received since November, 2008.