ALLMedicine™ Adrenocortical Carcinoma Center

Jan 12th, 2022 - Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine malignancy with a poor prognosis. Mitotane, a derivative of the pesticide DDT, has been used successfully as first line chemotherapy since the 1960s, if maintained within a narrow therapeutic wind...

Jan 8th, 2022 - ASO Visual Abstract: Adrenocortical Carcinoma-The Value of Lymphadenectomy.|2022|Tseng J,DiPeri T,Chen Y,Shouhed D,Ben-Shlomo A,|

Dec 20th, 2021 - This is a Phase 1, open-label, dose-escalation trial of avelumab [antibody targeting programmed death ligand 1 (anti PD-L1)] with consecutive parallel group expansion in participants with selected tumor indications. New recruitment is open for all...

Dec 18th, 2021 - Adrenocortical carcinoma is an invasive malignancy with poor prognosis, high recurrence rate and limited therapeutic options. Therefore, it is necessary to establish an effective method to diagnose and evaluate the prognosis of patients, so as to ...

Dec 16th, 2021 - 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...

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...

Dec 20th, 2021 - This is a Phase 1, open-label, dose-escalation trial of avelumab [antibody targeting programmed death ligand 1 (anti PD-L1)] with consecutive parallel group expansion in participants with selected tumor indications. New recruitment is open for all...

Dec 16th, 2021 - 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...

Oct 1st, 2021 - Relacorilant is a small molecule antagonist of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The goal of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of relacorilant when given in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced adrenocortical carc...

Sep 30th, 2021 - Rationale: Standard diagnostic work-up for adrenal incidentalomas (AI) consists of periodical biochemical analysis and CT-scanning in case the initial work-up does not demonstrate the presence of hormonal hypersecretion or adrenocortical carcinoma...

Jun 4th, 2021 - Basic objective of the German Adrenocortical Carcinoma Registry is to improve the care of patients with adrenocortical cancer. The registration of as many patients as possible helps to collect data for the prognosis and prospects of success regard...

Sep 30th, 2021 - Updated clinical guidelines on the diagnosis and management of neuroendocrine and adrenal tumors were released in 2021 by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). The new version of the guidelines, published in the Journal of the National...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - Although there are only approximately 10,000 people in the United States living with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome, nearly 3 dozen cancer institutes and hospitals throughout the nation have joined a network of specialized clinical centers for d...

Apr 2nd, 2021 - Transcript: Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD: I would like to end our very valuable discussion here by asking each one of you about—all right, great, out of nothing we moved in the speed of light. I’m not sure even if there is any other disease that w...

Dec 5th, 2020 - Ellen T. Matloff, MS, CGC Certified genetic counselor and director of Cancer Genetic Counseling at Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut Should the clinician discuss genetic options with cancer survivors? When should this information b...

Jul 29th, 2020 - A strategy that includes a urine steroid test along with imaging characteristics and tumor size criteria can significantly improve the challenging diagnosis of adrenocortical cancer, helping to avoid unnecessary, and often unsuccessful, further im...