Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Data demonstrating antiproliferative effects of somatostatin analogs (SSAs) in enteropancreatic NETs are limited; only one prospective trial so far has shown this for patients with midgut tumors and low hepatic tumor load (HTL). CLARINET is the first large phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled trial evaluating such effects for the SSA lanreotide in patients with non-functioning enteropancreatic NETs.Methods: Patients who had well/moderate...

Background: Molecular classification is important for diagnosis and prognosis of adrenocortical tumors (ACT). Transcriptome profiles separate benign ACT (“C2” cluster) from carcinomas (ACC) and identify two groups of ACC, “C1A” (“steroid” and “proliferation” signatures) and “C1B” (“immune” signature), of poor and better prognosis respectively. However, these signatures were characterized at the tissue level (“bul...

Background and objective: The number of reports of metastatic (secondary) pituitary tumors has been increasing with progression of diagnostic and treatment skills for cancer patients. However, there were no nation-wide epidemiologic surveys or epidemiologic reviews about this topic. We have started a multi-institutional joint research in Japan to understand clinical features of metastatic pituitary tumors.Subjects and methods: We distributed 1069 closely...

Background: Adrenocortical cancer (ACC) is an aggressive tumour with heterogeneous prognosis. Pan-genomic studies identified molecular subgroups of ACC, remarkably associated with outcome. For routine prospective use, targeted molecular measures are needed, combined into reasonably easy and cheap techniques. The aim was to develop and validate different combinations of targeted molecular markers reflecting the molecular subgroup, and compare their prognostic value to standard ...