Background: To clarify the optimal management of rectal carcinoid tumors and role of preoperative imaging, retrospective analyses of prospectively accumulated data on treatment results and ...

Background: Cyclo-oxygenase (COX)-2 overexpression is observed in various neoplasms and COX-2 inhibition has been attempted as prevention and/or therapy in these neoplasms. Carcinoid tumors are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 65-year-old woman with a history of type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease with congestive heart failure and ...

Carcinoid tumors are typically cancerous. These slow-growing tumors are often found in the gut or the lungs years after they first develop. They can spread to other parts of the body. Carcinoid tumors ...

Background A 74-year-old African-American male presented with a 3-day history of hematemesis and melena. The patient reported no abdominal pain, constitutional symptoms, bright red blood per rectum, ...

Very little is known about the causes of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors. As with other cancers, scientists have recognized some changes in the DNA of carcinoid tumor cells that are probably ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Can you please give more insight into carcinoid syndrome? In particular, I'd like to know its symptoms and how it gets diagnosed and treated? What kind of a doctor would one see with ...

Reviewed by Yolanda Smith, B.Pharm. Carcinoid tumors may sometimes be asymptomatic but may show symptoms in other patients. The signs of the illness are not definite and depend greatly on the location ...

ALTHOUGH the role of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin, 5HT) in the pathophysiology of the carcinoid syndrome, and especially in flush production, has been seriously questioned, 2 the fact remains that ...

Evaluation of serum/plasma VEGF/e-selectin and 18F-FDG PET uptake after panitumumab infusion in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) patients treated with chemoradiation (CTRT) (StarPan/STAR-02 phase ...

The COX-1 staining was very similar in normal gastric, and small and large intestinal tissues. Cyclo-oxygenase-1 staining was occasionally observed in mucosal epithelial cells, stromal fibroblasts and ...

A 65-year-old woman with a history of type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease with congestive heart failure and nephropathy presented with severe, intermittent, crampy abdominal pain and chronic ...