Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hypercalcaemia is well associated with metastatic malignancy. Hypocalcaemia is an uncommon complication of osteoblastic metastases and occurs most commonly with breast and prostate carcinoma.Case: A 46-year-old woman with metastatic breast carcinoma and osteoblastic skeletal metastases treated with denosumab presented with severe symptomatic hypocalcaemia. Serum calcium was persistently low with a nadir value of 1.45 mmol/l (2.2–2.6) a...

Introduction: TKI are an emerging group of anti-growth factor agents used in the treatment of solid cancers. Treatment is associated with thyroid dysfunction. Sunitinib is licensed for the treatment of metastatic RCC. Our objective was to determine the incidence of Sunitinib induced thyroid dysfunction and its management in patients with renal RCC.Methods: Retrospective case note analysis of patients started on Sunitinib for metastatic RCC between Januar...