Management and Treatment of Endocrine Tumors
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2022) | Viewed by 16126
Special Issue Editor
2. RESHAPE Research on Healthcare Performance, INSERM U1290 -UCBL 1, Domaine Rockefeller, 8 avenue Rockefeller, 69003 Lyon, France
Interests: thyroid surgery; thyroid carcinomas; primary hyperparathyroidism; adrenal surgery; adrenal cancers; pheochromocytoma; endocrine pancreatic tumors; health performance research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Endocrine surgery is currently a well-recognized specialty of general surgery. Like all medical specialties, when interest in an area increases, the knowledge that concerns it rapidly expands; meanwhile, the endocrine surgeon’s profile continues to diversify. Several years ago, endocrine surgeons generally treated thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, intestine, and pancreatic tumors. Currently, some surgeons specialize in one field of endocrine surgery, whereas others maintain a more general practice. Nonetheless, an endocrine surgeon must be more than a good surgeon and must have excellent knowledge in radiology, nuclear medicine, endocrinology, pathology, and oncology. Recent significant progress in these fields includes the use of positrons. Remarkably, novel functional imaging radioisotopes using positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) tracers, including gallium-68 (68Ga)-DOTATATE, have been successfully expanded in tumor localization and visualization. Other PET/CT tracers have also become essential in the diagnosis of recurrence of numerous endocrine tumors.
The treatment of endocrine tumors has changed during the last decade. The extent of thyroid cancer surgery continues to become less invasive, while the imaging strategy aids in the success of parathyroid surgery. Moreover, research on optimal lymph node dissection in the surgical treatment of intestine endocrine tumors continually expands. Although techniques of mini-invasive surgery remain poorly established in all fields, this research area is advancing rapidly. Furthermore, the progression of genetic tumors has modified patient management and allowed prophylactic surgery in certain cases. Thus, the oncologic treatments of endocrine tumors are in constant evolution with the use of new targeted therapy.
This series of articles, original articles, and reviews is presented by an international team of experts in endocrine tumors. From these works, we try to cover all research fields concerning the management of these tumors.
Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Lifante
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thyroid cancers
- primary hyperparathyroididsm
- thyroid cancer surgery
- adrenal tumors
- pheochromocytoma
- pancreatic endocrine tumors
- intestine NETs
- nuclear medicine