Endocrine oncology refers to a medical speciality dealing with hormone-producing tumors, i.e. a combination of
endocrinology
Endocrinology (from ''endocrine system, endocrine'' + ''wikt:-logy#Suffix, -ology'') is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the ...
and
oncology
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''. The name's Etymology, etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγ ...
.
Few centres are specializing in hormone producing tumors only, due to the relatively low
incidence. Most centres have gastroenterologists, oncologist or endocrinologists who deal with other diseases as well. One exception is the
Uppsala Centre of Excellence in Neuroendocrine Tumors at
Uppsala University Hospital in
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
, where doctors treat only endocrine tumors.
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Endocrine tumors
There are many different kinds of endocrine tumors, some of which are listed below:
* Gastrointestinal
**
ECLoma
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Midgut carcinoid
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Appendix carcinoid
**
Hindgut carcinoid sometimes also referred to as
Rectal carcinoid
* Pulmonary
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Typical bronchial carcinoid
**
Atypical bronchial carcinoid
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Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma
**
Small cell lung cancer
* Endocrine pancreatic tumors
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Non-functioning endocrine pancreatic tumors
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Insulinoma
An insulinoma is a tumour of the pancreas that is derived from beta cells and secretes insulin. It is a rare form of a neuroendocrine tumour. Most insulinomas are benign in that they grow exclusively at their origin within the pancreas, but a m ...
**
Gastrinoma
Gastrinomas are neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), usually located in the duodenum or pancreas, that secrete gastrin and cause a clinical syndrome known as Zollinger–Ellison syndrome (ZES). A large number of gastrinomas develop in the pancreas or duo ...
**
Glucagonoma
**
VIPoma
A VIPoma or vipoma () is a rare endocrine tumor that overproduces vasoactive intestinal peptide (thus ''VIP'' + '' -oma''). The incidence is about 1 per 10,000,000 per year. VIPomas usually (about 90%) originate from the non-β islet cells of ...
* Adrenals
**
Adrenocortical carcinoma
**
Pheochromocytoma
Pheochromocytoma is a rare tumor of the adrenal medulla composed of chromaffin cells and is part of the paraganglioma (PGL) family of tumors, being defined as an intra-adrenal PGL. These neuroendocrine tumors can be sympathetic, where they relea ...
* Endocrine tumor syndromes
** Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia I,
MEN1
** Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia II,
MEN2
**
von Hippel Lindau syndrome
References
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Endocrine neoplasia
Rare cancers
Oncology
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''. The name's Etymology, etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγ ...
Oncology