Carcinoid syndrome natural history, complications and prognosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Prognosis varies from individual to individual. It ranges from a 95% 5 year survival for localized disease to a 20% 5 year survival for those with liver metastases. The average survival time from the start of octreotide treatment has increased to about 12 years.
Natural History
Complications
- Increased risk of falls and injury (from hypotension)
- Bowel obstruction (from tumor)
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Right-sided heart failure
- Serotonin causes fibrosis of the tricuspid valve and pulmonary valve, more rarely the mitral valve in cases with left sided involvement
- "TIPS" - Tricuspid Insufficiency, Pulmonic Stenosis (fibrosis of tricuspid and pulmonary valves)
Prognosis
The outlook in patients with carcinoid syndrome is different from the outlook in patients who have carcinoid tumors without the syndrome. In people with the syndrome, the tumor has usually spread to the liver, which lowers the survival rate. People with carcinoid syndrome are also more likely to have a separate cancer (second primary tumor) at the same time. The outlook is more favorable with new treatment methods, such as Sandostatin.