Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenocortical carcinoma (AC) is a rare neoplasm with poor prognosis. Medical treatment of AC is actually based on the use of op’DDD (mitotane) with or without traditional chemotherapeutic agents. Only very few information are available about the effectiveness of somatostatin analogs in AC. In human adrenal gland the expression of all five somatostatin receptor (SSTR) subtypes was previously demonstrated. A differential expression was shown in adrenal adenomas and carcino...

Many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the RET gene have been described both in the general population and in patients with sporadic medullary thyroid cancer (sMTC), MEN2 or Hirschsprung disease. Some association studies reported a higher prevalence of these variants in the affected patients, suggesting a possible role in modifying the risk of occurrence of the disease. However, data from different cohorts of sMTC are discrepant and the aim of the present study ...