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- Title
ENDOCRINE TUMORS.
- Authors
Galoiu, S.
- Abstract
The article focuses on adrenal cancer which can be treated by adrenolytic therapy using mitotane which induces adrenal insufficiency that needed an increased glucocorticoid replacement dose. It states that life expectancy in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is 10 year and its survival rate exceeds 90 percent. It further states that ultrasound-guided percutaneous ethanol injection and radiofrequency ablation are used as treatment option for thyroid cancer in advanced stage.
- Subjects
ADRENAL gland cancer; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LIFE expectancy; THYROID cancer patients; CATHETER ablation
- Publication
Acta Endocrinologica (1841-0987), 2013, Vol 9, Issue 1, p145
- ISSN
1841-0987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4183/aeb.2013.145