Glossary for Endocrine system cancer

• Adrenal Cancer: A malignant cancer that develops in the adrenal gland. The tumor may be nonfunctioning (does not produce hormones) or functioning in which case excessive levels of hormones can cause a variety of symptoms depending on which hormone is involved. Adrenal hormones made in the cortex (outer part of the gland) are aldosterone, corticosteroids and androgenic steroids. Adrenalin and noradrenalin are the hormones made in the medulla (central part of the adrenal gland).
• Endocrine disorders: Any disorder that affects the endocrine system
• Endocrine pancreatic cancer: Any disease that affects the endocrine pancreas
• Glucagonoma: Rare cancer of the glucagon-producing pancreas cells.
• Insulinoma: A rare form of pancreatic cancer that causes excessive secretion of the hormone insulin. A relatively small number of cases are malignant.
• Irritable bowel syndrome: Spasms in the colon wall
• Pancreatic cancer: Pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas
• Parathyroid Cancer: A condition that is characterised by malignancy that affects the parathyroid
• Pheochromocytoma: Pheochromocytoma is a neuroendocrine tumor of the medulla of the adrenal glands (originating in the chromaffin cells), or extra-adrenal chromaffin tissue that failed to involute after birth and secretes excessive amounts of catecholamines, usually epinephrine and norepinephrine.
• Pituitary Cancer: Cancer of the pituitary gland.
• Somatostatinoma: A very rare disorder where tumors in glands that produce somatostatin affect the secretion of the hormone. The tumor mainly occurs in the pancreas but can also occur in the intestinal tract.
• Thymus Cancer: Cancer that occurs in the thymus
• Thyroid cancer: Cancer of the thyroid gland.

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