Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignant tumor with heterogeneous prognosis. The median overall survival of all ACC patients is about 3-4 years. Complete surgical resection provides the only cure [Fassnacht M, et al., 2018]. In cases of advanced ACC, therapeutic options are limited. No effective second-line therapies are recommended for patients with disease progression to EDP chemotherapy scheme and Mitotane. It is essential to study alternative drugs,...

Background: The combination of various endocrine tumours is presented both as hereditary syndromes and sporadic forms. Medullary thyroid cancer and prolactinoma are neuroendocrine tumours, the presence of these two pathologies simultaneously has not been previously described in the literature.Objective: To present a clinical case of a patient with giant prolactinoma and medullary thyroid cancer.Materials and Methods: To describe th...