Aggressive and Metastatic Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumors: Therapeutic Management and Off-Label Drug Use

P Iglesias - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs) are the most common pituitary tumors and the
second most common brain tumors. Although the vast majority (> 90%) are benign, a small …

Cancer immunotherapy-associated hypophysitis

F Castillero, O Castillo-Fernández… - Future …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The advances in cancer therapy have included the development of drugs that inhibit
immune checkpoint ligands. Two types of immune checkpoint inhibitors, both antibodies that …

HLA analysis of immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced and idiopathic isolated ACTH deficiency

M Ono, I Fukuda, M Nagao, K Tomiyama… - Pituitary, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Isolated adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency is a rare disease; however, since
immune check point inhibitors (ICIs) have become widely used, many more cases have …

Expert opinion on pituitary complications in immunotherapy

C Briet, F Albarel, E Kuhn, E Merlen, P Chanson… - Annales d' …, 2018 - Elsevier
Hypophysitis is a frequent toxic endocrine side-effect of immunotherapy. Prevalence is
higher with anti-CTLA-4 antibodies (4–20%) or in association with PD-1 inhibitors (8%) …

Progression of hypopituitarism and hypothyroidism after treatment with pembrolizumab in a patient with adrenal metastasis from non-small-cell lung cancer

S Yamagata, K Kageyama, S Takayasu, Y Asari… - Internal …, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Pembrolizumab, or anti-programmed death receptor 1 antibody, is an immune checkpoint
inhibitor that can cause immune-related adverse events. We herein report for the first time …

Diabetes insipidus: A rare endocrine complication of immune check point inhibitors: A case report and literature review

A Angelousi, P Papalexis… - Experimental and …, 2022 - spandidos-publications.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), including anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1),
anti-programmed cell death protein ligand 1 (PD-L1) and anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte …

[HTML][HTML] Update on Current Evidence for the Diagnosis and Management of Nonfunctioning Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumors

E Whyte, M Nezu, C Chik… - Endocrinology and …, 2023 - synapse.koreamed.org
Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs) are the third most frequently diagnosed
intracranial tumors, with nonfunctioning PitNETs (nfPitNETs) accounting for 30% of all …

Aggressive nonfunctioning pituitary neuroendocrine tumors

S Portovedo, LV Neto, P Soares, DP Carvalho… - Brain Tumor …, 2022 - Springer
Nonfunctioning pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (NF-PitNETs) are tumors that are not
associated with clinical evidence of hormonal hypersecretion. According to the World Health …

Immune landscape and progress in immunotherapy for pituitary neuroendocrine tumors

X Guo, Y Yang, Z Qian, M Chang, Y Zhao, W Ma… - Cancer Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (pitNETs) are the second most common primary brain
tumors. Despite their prevalence, the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) and its clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Aggressive pituitary tumors and pituitary carcinomas

SMC De Sousa, AI McCormack - Endotext [Internet], 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aggressive pituitary tumors (APT) refer to pituitary adenomas exhibiting radiological
invasiveness and an unusually rapid tumor growth rate, or clinically relevant tumor growth …