Prevalence of neoplasms in patients with acromegaly - the need for a national registry.

CONCLUSIONS: Benign neoplasms were found in majority of patients with acromegaly (71.6%) most notably: nodular goiter and colon polyps; malignant lesions were rare (4.5%). Only every fifth patient suffered from no neoplastic proliferations. No correlations between the studied parameters and the incidence of neoplasms were found, most likely due to the small number of patients. This is the reason for proposing the creating of the first national register of incidences of neoplasms among acromegalic patients. PMID: 30260174 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Ann Agric Environ Med Source Type: research