Patients with an adrenal tumor who have surgery have an excellent outlook.
Cancerous adrenal tumors can spread to the liver or lungs.
Appropriate treatment of adrenal tumors may reduce the risk of complications in some patients with tumor-related Cushing syndrome.
In pill form, it was once used to treat certain types of adrenal tumors.
They most commonly occur in the adrenal gland, yet only comprise about 3% of all adrenal tumours.
Several adrenal tumors cause symptoms because they result in the over- or underproduction of certain hormones by the adrenal gland.
However, size and weight of the adrenal cortical tumors are no longer considered to be a reliable sign of benignity or malignancy.
An adrenal incidentaloma is an adrenal tumor found by coincidence without clinical symptoms or suspicion.
Medical imaging may be indicated in a subset of patients to rule out adrenal tumors, pituitary tumors, or male breast cancer.
The girl, she said, "turned out to have a very large malignant adrenal tumor."