Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The prevalence of small intestine neuroendocrine tumors (SI-NETs) is increasing. Disease progression is often slow, treatment options and long-term survival rates have improved. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is considered an important measure of patients’ perception of the burden of their disease and the impact of treatment modalities. Despite this, data on whether improvements in treatment options and survival rates also translate into improved HRQoL...

Background: Adrenal cortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignancy known to be highly aggressive, with few specific treatment options. The objective was to evaluate clinicopathological features and outcome in patients treated at Helsinki University HospitalMethods and patients: We included all patients diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma (Weiss score ≥4) at Helsinki University Hospital during the years 2002 through 2017. Patients were identified...

Introduction and design: Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is a rare endocrine malignancy and the diagnosis is difficult. As the incidence seems to be increasing, we examined all cases diagnosed in our country during years 2000–2011 and compared the results to those of atypical parathyroid (AA; n=28) and parathyroid adenomas (A; n=72). All tissue specimens were re-examined.Results: In 2000–2011, 32 patients were diagnosed with PC in ...