How to Use neuroendocrine in a Sentence

neuroendocrine

adjective
  • His death came two years after the actor revealed he had been diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor.
    — Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Jobs was already suffering from neuroendocrine tumor, a form of pancreatic cancer, when Johnson broke the news.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 26 June 2026
  • The approach is used especially in specific types of cancer, such as certain prostate cancers and neuroendocrine tumors that affect organs such as the gut and pancreas.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The law is named for Deb Robertson, a former social worker from Lombard who had an aggressive case of neuroendocrine carcinoma.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Some type of pancreatic cancers offer more of a chance of survival, including pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, which develop in hormone-producing cells.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Doctors said Emily, just like Tim, also needed treatment for a liver abscess after her Whipple procedure for her neuroendocrine tumor, a slower-growing tumor.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Further, every woman experiences this neuroendocrine transition of menopause differently.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Although the condition has traditionally been viewed as gynecological or ovarian, newer research shows it is driven by broader endocrine and hormonal dysfunction involving insulin, androgens, neuroendocrine hormones and ovarian hormones.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2026
  • Keighley died Thursday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after a battle with neuroendocrine prostate cancer, his son Geoff Keighley told The Hollywood Reporter.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025

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