The prevalence of benign and malignant tumors in patients with acromegaly at a single institute

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-71

  Kurimoto, Makiko ^a   Fukuda, Izumi ^a   Hizuka, Naomi ^a   Takano, Kazue ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Malignant tumors; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; GOITER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POLYP; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH POLYP; THYROID CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOMA; INCIDENCE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; STOMACH TUMOR; THYROID DISEASE;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THYROID DISEASES;

EID: 42049106667     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K07E-010     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Daughaday WH (1990) The possible autocrine/paracrine and endocrine roles of insulin-like growth factors of human tumors. Endocrinology 127: 1-4.
2. Prisco M, Romano G, Peruzzi F, Valentinis B, Baserga R (1999) Insulin and IGF-I receptors signaling in protection from apoptosis. Horm Metab Res 31: 80-89.
3. Ezzat S, Melmed S (1991) Clinical review 18: are patients with acromegaly at increased risk for neoplasia? J Clin Endocrinol Metab 72: 245-246.
4. Provic V, Damjanovic S, Micic D, Nesovic M, Djurovic M, Petakov M, Obradovic S, Zoric S, Simic M, Penezic Z, Marinkovic J (1998) Increased incidence of neoplasia in patients with pituitary adenomas. The Pituitary Study Group. Clin Endocrinol 49: 441-445.
5. Cheung NW, Boyages SC (1997) Increased incidence of neoplasia in females with acromegaly. Clin Endocrinol 47: 323-327.
6. Webb SM, Casanueva F & Wass JA (2002) Oncological Complications of Excess GH in Acromegaly. Pituitary 5: 21-25.
7. Jenkins PJ (2004) Acromegaly and Cancer. Horm Res 62 (suppl 1) 108-115.
8. Ezzat S, Strom C, Melmed S (1991) Colon polyps in acromegaly. Ann Intern Med: 114 754-755.
9. Shimizu N, Saito S, Yokogoshi H (1998) Analysis of complications in Acromegaly in Japan. By the questionnaire of survey group of hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction in the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Report of the Research Work in the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Japan, 225-232 (In Japanese).
10. Melmed S. Clinical Perspective: Acromegaly and cancer: Not a problem? (2001) J Clin Endocrinol Metab 86: 2929-2934.
11. Jenkins PJ, Besser M (2001) Clinical Perspective: Acromegaly and cancer: A problem. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 86: 2935-2941.
12. Tominaga S, Oshima A, Kuroishi T, Aoki K (1999) Trends of age-specific incidence rates per 100,000 population in Japan according to sex, primary site and year in Japan. (ed) In: The statistical report of cancer in Japan -1999- Shinohara Publishing Co.: 104-142 (In Japanese).
13. Lieberman DA, Weiss DG, Bond JH, Ahnen DJ, Garewal H, Chejfec G (2000) Use of colonoscopy to screen asymptomatic adults for colorectal cancer. N Engl J Med 343: 162-168.
14. Jenkins PJ, Fairclough PD. British Society for Gastroenterology; Association of Coloproctology for Great Britain and Ireland (2002) Screening guidelines for colorectal cancer and polyps in patients with acromegaly. Gut 51: (suppl. 5) V13-V14.
15. Balkany C, Cushing GW (1995) An association between acromegaly and thyroid Carcinoma. Thyroid 5: 47-50.
16. Cheung NW & Boyages SC (1997) The thyroid gland in acromegaly an ultrasonographic study. Clin Endocrinol 46: 545-549.
17. Herrmann BL, Baumann H, Janssen O.E, Gorges R, Schmid KW, Mann K (2004) Impact of disease activity on thyroid disease in patients with acromegaly: Basal evaluation and follow-up. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 112: 225-230.
18. Kasagi K, Shimatsu A, Miyamoto S, Misaki T, Sakahara H, Konishi J (1999) Goiter associated with acromegaly: sonographic and scintigraphic findings of the thyroid gland. Thyroid 9: 791-796.
19. The Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine (1999) Diagnostic criteria for thyroid nodules. J Med Ultrasonics 26: 149-150 (Abstract).
20. Gasperi M, Martino E, Manetti L, Arosio M, Porretti S, Faglia G, Mariotti S, Colao AM, Lombardi G, Baldelli R, Camanni F, Liuzzi A; the Acromegaly Study Group of the Italian Society of Endocrinology (2002) Prevalence of thyroid diseases in patients with acromegaly: results of an Italian multi-center study. J Endocrinol Invest 25: 240-245.
21. Tita P, Ambrosio MR, Scollo C, Carta A, Gangemi P, Bondanelli M, Vigneri R, degli Uberti EC, Pezzino V (2005) High prevalence of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in acromegaly. Clin Endocrinol 63: 161-167.
22. Baris D, Gridley G, Ron E, Widerpass E, Mellemkjaer L, Ekbom A, Olsen JH, Barton JA, Fraumen JF Jr (2002) Acromegaly and cancer risk: a cohort study in Sweden and Denmark. Cancer Causes Contro. 13: 395-400.
23. Onoda N, Ohmura E, Tsushima T, Ohba Y, Emoto N, Isozaki O, Sato Y, Shizume K, Demura H (1992) Autocrine role of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I in a human thyroid cancer cell line. Eur J Cancer 28A: 1904-1909.
24. Sigel G, Tomer Y (2005) Is there an association between acromegaly and thyroid carcinoma? A critical review of the literature. Endocr Res 31: 51-58.
25. Jenkins PJ, Frajese V, Jones AM, Camacho-Hubner C, Lowe DG, Fairclough PD, Chew SL, Grossman AB, Monson JP, Besser GM (2000) Insulin-like growth factor I and the development of colorectal neoplasia in acromegaly. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 85: 3218-3221.