Patients with functional neuroendocrine tumors may experience hormone-related syndromes, such as carcinoid syndrome, characterized by flushing, diarrhea, and heart valve damage. 1 These syndromes ...

When a child develops a brain tumor, early diagnosis is essential. Alan Cohen, M.D., director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, shares the most common signs and symptoms ...

1Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. 2Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, ...

1Neurology Clinic and National Center for Tumor Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 2Clinical Cooperation Unit Neurooncology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer ...

Wilms tumor (also called nephroblastoma) is the most common type of kidney cancer in children. About 9 of 10 kidney cancers in children are Wilms tumors. These cancers are different from adult kidney ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, the estrogen receptor (ER) remains the most important biomarker in breast oncology. ER status is essential in clinical decisions and predicting outcomes for ...

Carcinoid tumors are part of a heterogeneous group of gastrointestinal and pancreatic endocrine tumors that are characterized by their capacity to produce and secrete hormones, 5-hydroxytryptamine ...

Cancer that starts in the thymus gland is called thymus cancer. It starts when cells in the thymus gland grow out of control and crowd out normal cells. Thymus cancers are rare. The thymus is a small ...