Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare and aggressive endocrine neoplasia with heterogeneous molecular background and clinical outcome. Previous studies identified hypermethylation in specific genes to be associated with poor prognosis. Here, we aimed to investigate the role of methylation pattern for prognostic stratification of patients with ACC as compared to clinical parameters, using methods easily applicable in clinical routine. We investigated a total of 237 ACCs (96 ...