A CT Scan showed a lemon-sized tumor in my left lung. Dr. Brenner thought it was a carcinoid, a tamer form of cancer, but after removing the lung, tests proved it was melanoma, one of the ...

Carcinoid tumors are part of a ... In the absence of a right-to-left shunt, such substances are inactivated in the lung, thus, left-sided heart damage is uncommon (when it does occur, it may ...

Carcinoid tumor of midgut ... of the large and highly vascular liver tumor, a unique surgical strategy was employed. After complete mobilization of the left lobe of the liver, the vascular inflow ...

You might hear some doctors or nurses use the term Carcinoid, instead of NET ... Doctors group them, depending on the place they start growing. For example, a lung neuroendocrine cancer starts in the ...

Carcinoid syndrome is a group of symptoms that some people get when they have a neuroendocrine tumour (NET). These symptoms happen when the tumour makes large amounts of hormones. There are different ...