Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Finding relevant neuroendocrine tumor (NET) trials remains a challenge for patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs). Clinicaltrials.gov’s taxonomy associates many conditions with NETs, complicating the discovery process. As of 6/30/23 clinicaltrials.gov listed 700 recruiting, phase 1-3 interventional trials using the terms Neuroendocrine Tumors, Pheochromocytoma, and Paraganglioma. Many of these trials are not relevant for patients with NETs. Even with sev...

We are all aware of the current anxieties over the future of Academic Medicine and Modernising Medical Careers. 10 years ago the BMA cohort of 1995 Medical graduates: Medical Academic Career Intentions was performed. 545 doctors graduating in 1995 were followed up for 10 years. The key findings included: those doctors working in research were doing so to improve future career prospects or as a means to secure a National Training Number (NTN). However being in the transition pe...

MD are the most frequent complaint of women with Cushing Syndrome at the time of diagnosis.Objective: To study the frequency of occurrence of MD in patients with Syndrome Cushing and to characterize their clinical and hormonal parallels. We investigated 34 women (average age of 27 years, variation in age from 18 to 30 years) with a newly identified ACTHA. The patients were divided into 4 groups: (1) the normal cycle is 26–31 days; (2) oligomenorrhea...

Background: Patients with small bowel neuroendocrine tumors (SBNETs) frequently present with metastatic disease, and unfortunately, the range and efficacy of available therapies is limited. Immunotherapeutic checkpoint inhibitors have demonstrated benefit in other malignancies and may also play a role in SBNETs, although relatively little is known about the immune infiltrate in these tumors. Toward a goal of developing novel immunomodulatory strategies, we sought to evaluate t...

In all probability, a thesis is the longest single document that anyone is likely to write as a scientist. It requires much planning to ensure that the thesis gets written and submitted on time. To begin with, plan the overall outline of the thesis. With some variation, most theses begin with a comprehensive introduction/literature review. A chapter describing the materials and methods invariably follows. The subsequent chapters contain the material you have sweated over i.e. ...

Considered are the physiological mechanisms of relationship of the magnitude of blood plasma and interstitial fluid osmolarity conditioned by glycaemia with transmembrane movement of water between intra- and extracellular water compartments of organism. Analysed are the potentialities of impedance spectroscopy in quantitative evaluation of increments of specific volumes of extra- and intracellular fluid of hypoderm tissues occurring due to fluctuations of intercellular fluid g...

Background: High-grade neuroendocrine neoplasms (HG-NENs) are a heterogenous and biologically aggressive rare subset of NENs. Few therapeutic options are available to metastatic HG-NENs. To date, first line treatment is platinum- or temozolomide-based chemotherapy which provide modest benefits in overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS). Given the promising activity of immunotherapy across several cancer types, our center initiated a phase II trial of pembroli...

Background: Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS) of the thyroid is rare. It is often identified in its advanced stage, with distant metastasis, and has poor prognosis. This paper presents one of the less than 30 cases that have been documented ever since it was first identified in 1989. In the Philippines, there is no published report of a primary thyroid sarcoma.Case Presentation: The author describes a 73-year-ol...

Background: Hormonally-refractory, lethal forms of PCa may express neuroendocrine features, including PCa with neuroendocrine differentiation (NEDPCa) and treatment emergent small cell neuroendocrine PCa (tSCNC). We hypothesize that some lethal metastatic PCa may show higher expression of SSTR than of PSMA and that a dual imaging approach with PET radiopharmaceuticals targeting these moieties will enable informed selection of patients for the future corresponding therapeutic r...

Background: Lu177 DOTATATE Peptide Receptor Radionucleotide Therapy (PRRT) was FDA approved in the United States in 2018, however, the data for the safety and efficacy of repeat PRRT are almost exclusively from European centers. We present an updated experience with repeat PRRT in a cohort of US patients.Methods: We used our single-center longitudinal IRB approved neuroendocrine tumor (NET) registry to identify patients who had been previously treated wi...