Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) commonly metastasizes to cervical lymph nodes, liver, lungs and bone. Metastatic lesions in the breast have been previously reported but they are extremely rare and to our knowledge, this is the first case in literature described on a male patient. We report a case of a 49-year-old man with a 23-year history of sporadic MTC with bone, liver and lung metastases treated with somatostatin analogues for 6 years, who developed a painf...

Background: Acromegaly, a chronic disease caused by excess secretion of growth hormone (GH), has been known to reduce patients life expectancy. This increase in morbility and mortality is not only due to cardiovascular, respiratory or cerebrovascular disorders, but also to an increased risk for cancer.Subjects and methods: The aim of this study was to describe the associated malignant diseases among our fifty acromegalic patients. Clinical features of th...