Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The French National Institute of Cancer (INCa) launched supported by the Ministry of Health in 2008 a program for the recognition of national networks for the management of rare cancers. Among the 23 selected networks COMETE-Cancer was recognized by INCa in 2009 for Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and malignant pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma (MPP). At that time 60–120 new ACC/year and 30 new MPP/year were expected at the national level....

Introduction: Somatostatin analogues are widely used to reduce the incidence and severity of carcinoid syndrome symptoms. However, their impact on patients’ satisfaction with symptom control needs further investigation. SYMNET was a large international multicentre observation study that assessed PROs during LAN-ATG treatment of carcinoid syndrome in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumour (GEP–NET) patients.Methods: At routine clinic visit...

Introduction: The prognosis of stages III–IV ACC patients is dismal. The 5-year survival of stage IV ACC ranges between 0 and 13% and no prognostic study has focused on stage III, yet. Several reports suggest a greater heterogeneity of advanced ACC prognosis that initially thought.Aim: The primary objective of our study was to analyse the prognostic factors of overall survival of the subgroup of advanced unresectable stage III–IV ACC patients c...