Science news articles about 'neuroendocrine tumors'

... Utah researchers and their colleagues have identified the gene that is mutated in a hereditary form of a rare neuroendocrine tumor called paraganglioma (PGL). The gene, called hSDH5, is required for ...

... authors turned to a mouse model of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in which lesions go through discrete ... research has centered around whether primary tumor cells must suffer an additional mutation ...

... is currently being evaluated for the treatment of several other cancers including lymphoma and neuroendocrine tumors. More than 400 patients participated in this study, all of whom had disease that ...

... said on Thursday U.S. health regulators granted it priority review on its application for AdreView, a molecular imaging agent for the detection of neuroendocrine tumors in children and adult patients.

... Czene@ki.se, 0046-8-524-86144 Experts Call for Renewed Efforts in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors During a September 2007 summit on neuroendocrine and carcinoid tumor, clinicians and ...

Neuroendocrine tumors, such as carcinoid tumors, overexpress somatostatin receptors in their membranes. Octreotide is an analogue whose molecule is a shortened version of somatostatin's with a high ...