Diabetes and Cholesterol Metabolism

Endocrine Oncology

Endocrine oncology is a medical speciality that deals with hormone producing tumors, i.e. a combination of endocrinology and oncology. Neuroendocrine tumors are neoplasms that arise from endocrine and nervous cells. Most commonly seen tumors are carcinoid tumors that affect the intestine, but there are other types of cancers that affect pancreas, lung and the rest of the body. Even though there are many types of  NETs, all are treated as a group of tissue, as the cells of these neoplasms share common features like looking similar,  some special secretory granules, and often produce biogenic amines and polypeptide hormones.