Endocrine Abstracts

Somatotropin is essential not only for linear growth but also for important metabolic functions. Its deficiency is usually the first and most common endocrinopathy induced by cancer disease and its treatments, mainly cranial irradiation. Although somatotropin replacement therapy is safe and effective in promoting a better linear growth, studies of final height in childhood cancer survivors treated with somatotropin are limited. This study was performed to examine growth outcom...