What is Pituitary Cancer?
What is Pituitary Cancer?
- Pituitary Cancer: Cancer of the pituitary gland.
- Pituitary Cancer: Abnormal growth of the cells that comprise the pituitary gland without specification as to whether the cells are malignant or benign.
Source - Diseases Database
Pituitary Cancer: Introduction
Types of Pituitary Cancer:
Types of Pituitary Cancer:
- Prolactinoma - 40% of pituitary tumors
- Pituitary adenoma (type of Adenoma)
- Corticotropinomas - secretes corticotropin
- Luteinizing hormone (LH) secreting tumors
- Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) secreting tumors
- more types...»
Broader types of Pituitary Cancer:
How many people get Pituitary Cancer?
Incidence (annual) of Pituitary Cancer: 14 per 100,000 people (NIDDK)
Incidence Rate of Pituitary Cancer: approx 1 in 7,142 or 0.01% or 38,080 people in USA [about data]
Lifetime risk of Pituitary Cancer:
25% of people have small pituitary tumors on autopsy but most are symptom-free.
Prevalance of Pituitary Cancer:
Clinically significant pituitary tumors affect the health of
approximately 14 out of 100,000 people.
(Source: excerpt from Prolactinoma: NIDDK)
How serious is Pituitary Cancer?
Prognosis of Pituitary Cancer: Generally good. Most pituitary tumors are benign.
Complications of Pituitary Cancer:
see complications of Pituitary Cancer
Prognosis of Pituitary Cancer:
Although prognosis depends on the type of pituitary
tumor and the patient’s age and general state of health, pituitary tumors
are usually curable.
(Source: excerpt from NINDS Pituitary Tumors Information Page: NINDS)
What causes Pituitary Cancer?
Causes of Pituitary Cancer: see causes of Pituitary Cancer
What are the symptoms of Pituitary Cancer?
Symptoms of Pituitary Cancer:
see symptoms of Pituitary Cancer
Complications of Pituitary Cancer:
see complications of Pituitary Cancer
Can anyone else get Pituitary Cancer?
Contagion of cancer: generally not; see details in contagion of cancer.
Pituitary Cancer: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Pituitary Cancer.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Pituitary Cancer.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Pituitary Cancer:
see treatments for Pituitary Cancer
Research for Pituitary Cancer:
see research for Pituitary Cancer
Organs Affected by Pituitary Cancer:
Organs and body systems related to Pituitary Cancer include:
Name and Aliases of Pituitary Cancer
Main name of condition: Pituitary Cancer
Class of Condition for Pituitary Cancer: cancer
Other names or spellings for Pituitary Cancer:
Pituitary tumor
Pituitary tumor, Pituitary tumour
Source - Diseases Database
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