Endocrine Abstracts

Survival figures following the treatment of brain tumours continue to improve. Patients receiving cranial radiotherapy (XRT) frequently suffer a progressive loss of anterior pituitary function secondary to radiation damage to the hypothalamic pituitary axis (HPA), therefore long-term follow up is required. The time frame of radiation damage to the HPA is not known. There is also a suggestion from animal data that the HPA is more sensitive to damage by radiation when treated at...