Endocrine Treatments & Services

The multispecialty team in the Endocrine Tumor Program can offer your patients comprehensive services, including:

Specialty consultations:

• Endocrine Oncology
• Surgery
• Medical Oncology 
• Nuclear Medicine
• Pathology
• Radiation Oncology
• Genetics
• Nutrition
• Speech 

Screening, Diagnosis & Staging

• Hormonal workup
• Imaging Studies
  • Cross- sectional body imaging (CT, MRI, PET/CT, Ga-69 DOTATATE PET/CT)
  • Nuclear medicine imaging (I131 scans, I123 scans, MIBG scan)
    • Radioactive iodine treatment and evaluation
    • Lutetium Lu 177 dotatate therapy for neuroendocrine tumors
• Procedures  
  • Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNA)
  • Ethanol ablation, available for some benign thyroid nodules/cysts and metastatic lymph nodes
• Molecular markers for thyroid nodules
• Genomic profiling of tumors
• Medical and surgical management of endocrine tumors and cancer 

Different types of treatment and technology are available for patients with endocrine disease. Treatment options available:

Thyroid Cancer/ Thyroid Nodules: 

• Total thyroidectomy 
• Thyroid lobectomy
• Lymph node excision/neck dissection
• Intraoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring
• RAI diagnostic scans and therapy
• Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT)

Parathyroid Cancer/ Hyperparathyroidism:

• Parathyroidectomy
• Medical management of hypercalcemia

Adrenal Nodules/Adrenal Cancer: 

• Hormonal abnormalities management
• Mitotane therapy
• Open adrenalectomy
• Laparoscopic adrenalectomy
• Robotic adrenalectomy
• Radiation Therapy

Pheochromocytoma/Paraganglioma:

• Surgical and medical management 
• Genetic counseling 

Pituitary Disease: 

• Medical management
• Transphenoidal surgery
• Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
• Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT)
• Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)

Systemic Therapy: 

• Molecular targeted therapeutics
• Chemotherapy 
• Neoadjuvant chemotherapy 
• Immunotherapy

We are offering a broad profile of clinical trials for patients with endocrine cancer. To learn more about the endocrine cancer clinical trials that are currently underway at Moffitt Cancer Center, call 813-745-6100 or 1-800-679-0775 (toll-free) or submit a clinical trials inquiry form online.