Few topics provoke as much concern as the perception that puberty is beginning earlier than ever. While synthetic ...

All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. First came the 2024 University of California, Berkeley study that ...

Endocrine therapy remains a backbone of adjuvant therapy for women with hormone receptor–positive early-stage breast cancer. Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefit of ovarian function ...

Guidelines are presented for supporting structured and effective transition of endocrine conditions from pediatric to adult health services.

Surgery performed with its focus on one or more of the endocrine organs is referred to as endocrine surgery. The endocrine organs are glands located throughout the body, which secrete hormones that ...

After undergoing a total pancreatectomy, where the pancreas is surgically removed in its entirety, many patients face ...

Fred Hutch Cancer Center and UW Medicine’s Endocrine Tumor Program (ETP) uses an integrated, multidisciplinary team approach to treating patients with thyroid cancer and other endocrine cancers and ...

Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is the most common type of irregular heartbeat. About 2.7 million Americans have it. AFib happens when the electrical activity of the heart isn’t working the way it’s ...

In patients with regional lymph node status 0-1, HER+ HER– early breast cancer (n = 2,290), 5-year invasive disease-free survival was 92.6% (95% CI, 90.8 to 94.0) with recurrence score (RS) 12-25 and ...

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is a genetic condition that causes tumors to form in endocrine glands and other organs. Despite not usually being cancerous, these tumors can be very ...