Carcinoid tumors can be cancerous or noncancerous. They can become malignant (cancerous) and metastasize over time. When this happens, the cancer typically spreads first to nearby lymph nodes and ...

He subsequently developed dyspnea on exertion. Diagnosis. Carcinoid tumor of midgut origin with large segment 3 liver metastasis. Carcinoid syndrome and carcinoid heart disease. Management.

As unsettling as it was, a liver biopsy confirmed the truth – Christina had a type of cancer called metastatic carcinoid. Neuroendocrine tumors (NET), also known as carcinoid cancer, are a ...

Doctors are becoming better at diagnosing metastatic carcinoid tumors (MCTs). However, the varied symptoms of an MCT can sometimes lead to misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment, until a carcinoid ...

tumors of these cells can produce syndromes of hormone excess, often long before local growth or metastatic spread is otherwise apparent. Manifestations of the carcinoid syndrome include the ...

Four patients had from two to nine multiple tumors. The usual carcinoid is seen at autopsy as a small nodule with a distinctive yellowish color. There were two malignant carcinoids in our series ...

Carcinoid tumors are thought to arise from neuroendocrine ... Five bronchopulmonary and seven metastatic carcinoids were also examined, for comparison with gastrointestinal carcinoids.

Tumor progression was assessed on the basis ... We evaluated patients with metastatic carcinoid disease who had undergone serial echocardiographic studies and patients referred directly for ...

Metastatic. Your cancer has spread to organs ... and rectum. If you have GI carcinoid tumors, your doctor may discuss three stages: Localized. Your cancer hasn't spread outside the place where ...

Gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor is another form of cancer that can ... it is called metastasis. These metastatic cancer cells are the same type of cancer as the primary tumor. For example, if ...

Unrelated to cigarette smoking, carcinoid tumors can metastasize ... or directly from nearby organs. Metastatic tumors are most often multiple, scattered throughout the lung and concentrated ...