Pituitary tumors, affecting nearly 17 percent of the population, carry substantial implications (1). While functional pituitary tumors can be effectively monitored for recurrence using hormonal ...

Pituitary tumors exhibit a spectrum of biology, with variable growth and hormonal behaviors. They therefore provide an opportunity to examine pathogenetic mechanisms that underlie the neoplastic ...

[1,2,4] For this reason, hormonal stimulation or impaired feedback inhibition has been thought to underlie the pathogenesis of pituitary tumors. The data suggest, however, that although hormones ...

1 Department of Neurosurgery, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu, China 2 School of Clinical Medicine &The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China ...

Crigler, Children's Hospital Medical Center ... per day. The nature of the pituitary tumor in the case presented above is not known, but the most likely possibility is that it is an ACTH-secreting ...

GH stimulates growth and development in children. In adults ... The most common cause is a noncancerous tumor in your pituitary gland. This tumor is called a pituitary adenoma and is almost ...

A new drug called WNTinib can delay the growth of tumors and improve survival in hepatoblastoma, a type of liver cancer that occurs in young children. This effect was seen in cancer cells taken ...

Brain and spinal cord tumors: hope through research. American Cancer Society. Tests for brain and spinal cord tumors in adults. American Cancer Society. What are pituitary tumors?. Le Rhun E, ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — Glioblastoma is the most common kind of malignant brain tumor in adults. So far, no treatment has been able to make this aggressive tumor permanently disappear. The tumor cells ...

How is the involvement of malignant tumors? In adults, malignant brain tumors represent 1 to 2% of cancers. In children, they take second place, right after leukemia, about 20-40% of all malignant ...

Claire Turner, 43 was diagnosed in January, learning that the disease had spread to her liver, thighs, lymph nodes and ...

This tumor causes the pituitary gland to produce too much GH ... is a rare and complex growth disorder that primarily affects a child’s development before birth, leading to intrauterine growth ...