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 ...

The tissue adjacent to a tumor behaves differently than areas farther away: The tumor’s cancerous cells influence their surroundings, blocking the body’s immune defenses and creating a sort of haven ...

They will also research why macrophages and tumor cells overexpress CD74, and whether this marker is present in other types of cancer. Anna Kinsella, Science Engagement Manager at Cancer Research ...

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

The stage of a cancer describes how far it has spread. To a large extent, your child’s treatment and prognosis (outlook) will depend on the stage, histology, and risk group of their Wilms tumor.

Carcinoid tumors are part of a heterogeneous group ... or demonstrate a correlation between actual fibrosis and these markers. Many newly described signaling pathway proteins may be important ...

But they are usually treated like similar NETs that start in other parts of the body. For more on how these tumors are typically treated, see Treating Lung Carcinoid Tumors and Treating Small Cell ...