Carcinoid tumors can be cancerous or noncancerous. They can become malignant (cancerous) and metastasize over time. When this happens, the cancer typically spreads first to nearby lymph nodes and ...

As unsettling as it was, a liver biopsy confirmed the truth – Christina had a type of cancer called metastatic carcinoid. Neuroendocrine tumors (NET), also known as carcinoid cancer, are a ...

He subsequently developed dyspnea on exertion. Diagnosis. Carcinoid tumor of midgut origin with large segment 3 liver metastasis. Carcinoid syndrome and carcinoid heart disease. Management.

There were no other areas of isotope accumulation suggesting metastases. These findings are consistent with a midgut carcinoid tumor of the small intestine. Carcinoid tumors are amine precursor ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of tumor and is responsible for around 10% of cancer-related deaths ...

In summary, present experience with adequate antitumor chemotherapy in 15 patients suggests that malignant carcinoid tumor is sensitive to 5-FU and alkylating agents. One patient responded to both ...

Most recently, Mullen and colleagues [9] studied the 48-month survival rate of 24 patients with duodenal carcinoid tumors and categorized them by size, depth, and lymph node metastases.

Generally, carcinoid tumors found incidentally have very good long-term outlooks. A recent series from the Massachusetts General Hospital recorded a 4% frequency of distant metastasis development ...

The histologic architecture was identical with that of the tumor in the corresponding lobe previously resected (Fig. 1 b). The "malignant carcinoid syndrome" in this patient was definitely ...