ALLMedicine™ Adrenocortical Carcinoma Center

Dec 1st, 2022 - The pharmacological approach to adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is based on mitotane with/without etoposide, doxorubicin, and cisplatin, according to the disease stage. Considering the limited efficacy and the toxicity of this treatment, new strate...

Nov 30th, 2022 - Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare, aggressive disease with a paucity of data and great variability between published studies regarding its treatment. This review provides information on current clinical management and oncological and endocr...

Nov 27th, 2022 - We examined the effect of disease-free interval (DFI) duration on cancer-specific mortality (CSM)-free survival, otherwise known as the effect of conditional survival, in surgically treated adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) patients. Within the Surve...

Nov 23rd, 2022 - Although adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) during pregnancy is rare, a retrospective review of a case series at our hospital revealed that almost one third of our patients were women in childbearing age. Given that the age of maternity is increasing,...

Nov 19th, 2022 - ASO Visual Abstract: Open Versus Laparoscopic Surgery in the Management of Adrenocortical Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.|2022|Nakanishi H,Miangul S,Wang R,El Haddad J,El Ghazal N,|

Jan 7th, 2021 - The NCCN Guidelines for Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, and Pancreatic focus primarily on assessment of pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants associated with increased risk of breast, ovarian, and pancreatic cancer and r...

Jul 9th, 2016 - : By definition, an adrenal incidentaloma is an asymptomatic adrenal mass detected on imaging not performed for suspected adrenal disease. In most cases, adrenal incidentalomas are nonfunctioning adrenocortical adenomas, but may also represent con...

Jun 17th, 2008 - Our objective was to develop clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with primary aldosteronism. The Task Force comprised a chair, selected by the Clinical Guidelines Subcommittee (CGS) of The Endocrine Society, si...

Oct 5th, 2022 - Background: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare tumor with an incidence of 1.5 to 2 per million people per year. It has a very poor prognosis with an overall 5-year mortality rate of 75-90% and an average survival from the time of diagnosis o...

Oct 5th, 2022 - Background: Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) are divided into neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs). These are rare malignancies occurring for example in the gastrointestinal tract, islets of the pancreas, lung, adrenal ...

Oct 3rd, 2022 - This study is a national, multicenter, interventional, phase II clinical trial on the use of pembrolizumab in advanced adrenocortical carcinoma, with confirmed progression within 6 months, following EDP or EDP-M ( etoposide, doxorubicin, cisplatin...

Jul 15th, 2022 - Adrenocortical carcinoma is an orphan malignant disease that has a dismal prognosis in advanced stages. Mitotane is the only approved treatment but is limited by severe toxicity. Efficacy of mitotane is unsatisfactory with an objective response ra...

Jul 14th, 2022 - Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare tumor with an incidence of 1.5 to 2 per million people per year. It has a very poor prognosis with an overall 5-year mortality rate of 75 - 90% and an average survival from the time of diagnosis of 14.5 mon...

Aug 23rd, 2022 - New adrenalectomy guidelines from the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons are aimed at assisting both specialist and general surgeons with perioperative adrenal care, including guidance on management of adrenal incidentalomas. Published onl...

Feb 20th, 2022 - The utilization of mitotane (Lysodren) in the adjuvant setting did not produce significant benefit for patients with adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) at low or intermediate risk of recurrence, according to findings from the phase 3 ADIUVO trial (NCT...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Treatment with the combination of eganelisib (IPI-549), a selective PI3K-γ inhibitor, and nivolumab (Opdivo) demonstrated encouraging clinical activity and a favorable safety profile in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), ...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Nikhil Wagle, MD An exceptional responder with advanced urothelial carcinoma experienced a complete radiologic response lasting 13.8 months following treatment with the combination of everolimus (Afinitor) and pazopanib (Votrient), according to r...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Bradley McGregor, MD, physician, Genitourinary Oncology program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and instructor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses immunotherapy in rare genitourinary (GU) cancers. Clinical trials are generally geared to...