The Condition"...Sometimes upper and lower GI tract endoscopy is also helpful..."
The Condition"...The diagnosis is not usually suspected prior to surgery but is then established by biopsy..."
The Condition"...cells that are widely distributed within the body but found in greatest amounts in the small intestine and then in decreasing amounts in the appendix, rectum, lung, pancreas and very rarely in the ovaries, testes, liver, bile ducts or other locations..."
Recommendation High/Increased Protein Diet"...An adequate intake of the amino acid tryptophan, along with niacin, can prevent the tendency towards pellagra, which may otherwise occur from the excessive use of tryptophan by carcinoid tumors..."
The Condition"...In cases where somewhat larger tumors have spread to local tissues and local lymph nodes but are, along with these locally invaded tissues, still totally surgically removable, the average survival has been 8 years ranging up to 23 years..."
The Condition"...Carcinoid tumors arise from glandular endocrine-hormone producing cells that are widely distributed within the body but found in greatest amounts in the small intestine and then in decreasing amounts in the appendix, rectum,..."
The Condition"... Chemotherapy, with many choices available, has been in use since the early 1980s..."
The Condition"There are a few types of tumor that fall within a category somewhere between benign and malignant..."