Endocrine Abstracts

Background: With the increasing use of cancer immunotherapies in advanced solid organ and hematologic malignancies, endocrinologists are beckoned to manage endocrine complications with unique presentations and natural history in the already challenged oncology patient. We describe four patients illustrating the multifarious endocrine adversities of checkpoint inhibitors.Cases: Patient 1 is a 35-year old male with refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma, previ...

Objective: Vitamin D is a multifunctional hormone with possible antitumor effects. Its exact role in breast carcinogenesis remains largely unknown. We evaluated serum vitamin D levels in female patients with recently identified benign or malignant lesions of the breast and its associations with tumor histology.Subjects-methods: One hundred sixty women with suspicious breast masses that required surgical excision were included in this study. Body composit...