Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Renal carcinomas (RCs) are the most common kidney cancers, and their prognosis is affected by many factors; 5-year survival rate is >90% in patients with small tumors confined to the kidney. RC makes up 2-3% of cancers in adults aged between 50 and 70 years; in particular, the incidence in men is higher than women, 66.7 vs 33.3% of the cases, respectively. Aim: RC incidence is twice as high in men as in women. This difference could sugg...

Background: Glucose metabolism derangements (GMD) and thyroid nodules (TN) are the most frequent endocrine disorders. A relationship between these conditions has been suggested, but data are still controversial and no evidence was reported regarding sex differences.Aim: To evaluate the distribution of impaired fasting glucose (IFG), normal glucose tolerance (NGT), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and TN according to sex.<p cla...

Introduction: Typical and Atypical bronchial carcinoids (TBC and ABC) are rare neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN). TBC are low grade and well-differentiated NEN often with indolent clinical behavior, slow growth, rare extra-thoracic metastases, and with a long survival following surgical resection. Conversely, ABC have often a worse prognosis with a greater tendency to metastasize and recur. A better understanding of TBC and ABC genetic background would help in evaluating prognosi...

Introduction: Typical and atypical bronchial carcinoids (TBC and ABC) are well-differentiated neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN). First-line treatment is radical removal of the primary tumour; however, management of metastatic BC is still challenging. Bronchial carcinoids (BC) may benefit from treatment with mTOR inhibitors, although response rates are moderate. TBC have shown reduced sensibility to mTOR inhibitors respect to ABC, notwithstanding its less aggressive behaviour. PI3...

IntroductionTypical bronchial carcinoids (TBC) are rare well-differentiated neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN) of the lung whose management can still be very challenging. In fact, the gold-standard treatment for TBC is total resection of the primary tumour; however, in case of metastatic disease adjuvant therapy with the mTOR inhibitor everolimus (eve) might be recommended. Unfortunately, prognosis may be very poor in cases showing moderate response rates to...

Background: Patients with transfusion-dependent β -thalassemia (TDT) often experience several endocrine complications, including diabetes mellitus (DM). In TDT, the reliability of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) assessment is compromised due to elevated erythrocytes turnover and frequent transfusions. Glycated Albumin (GA), a product of non-enzymatic albumin glycation, has been investigated as a medium-term glycaemic marker (21 days) in the general diabetic population. Since...

Introduction: Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC), the most frequent thyroid cancer, has excellent prognosis. Risk factors for lymph node metastatic spread are capsular invasion and size >1 cm. The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant delays in thyroid cancer diagnosis due to social isolation with consequent reduced medical referral. The lack of patient examination and of ultrasonography (US) led to inadequate thyroid nodule and cancer recurrence evaluation. We hereby presen...

Background: Current conclusions on risk of second brain tumour following radiotherapy for pituitary adenoma or craniopharyngioma are challenged methodologically by small patient sample size, selection biases or lack of appropriate controls.Objective: To ascertain whether radiotherapy for pituitary adenoma or craniopharyngioma is associated with increased second brain tumour risk, through use of appropriate methodology.Design: Multi...

Objectives: Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) in pediatric patients has peculiar clinical, pathological, and molecular characteristics, making its management different from the adult patients. Our study aimed to evaluate the outcome and predictive factors for persistent disease in a large cohort of pediatric patients.Methods: We performed a multicentric Italian study, enrolling patients aged ≤18 years old, diagnosed with a DTC, since January 2...