Sentences with phrase «islet cell tumors»

More than half of islet cell tumors produce excessive gastrin, which stimulates the stomach to overproduce acid.

Caplan ER, Peterson ME, Mullen HS, Quesenberry KE, Rosenthal KL, Hoeffer HL, Moroff SD: Diagnosis and treatment of insulin - secreting pancreatic islet cell tumors in ferrets: 57 cases (1986 - 1994).

The remaining islet cell tumors may produce other hormones, such as vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, which can cause severe diarrhea and lead to dehydration.

Experts say the length of his survival is mainly because he had a slow - growing, rare cancer called a pancreatic neuroendocrine islet cell tumor.

Some types of malignant pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, such as islet cell tumors, have a better prognosis than pancreatic exocrine cancers.

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, often referred to as «islet cell tumors» are a type of cancer that arises from hormone - releasing cells in the pancreas.

«Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors — pancreatic NETs, pNETs or islet cell tumors — are tumors that form from the abnormal growth of neuroendocrine cells in the pancreas,» says lead author Hala Elnakat Thomas, PhD, research assistant professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, and member of the Cincinnati Cancer Consortium and UC Cancer Institute's Pancreatic Cancer Center.

Some islet cell tumors produce no hormones at all.

Genetic Causes of a Type of Pancreas Cancer Uncovered Researchers deciphered the genetic causes of a type of pancreas cancer known as neuroendocrine or islet cell tumors and uncovered a unique genetic code specific to each patient that predicts how aggressive the disease is and how well it will respond to specific treatments.

For information on endocrine pancreatic cancer, see the PDQ summary on Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (Islet Cell Tumors) Treatment.