Last updated on January 29th, 2019 at 12:48 pm
Amid a lot of speculation and confusion finally, our Be Loved Bollywood star Irrfan Khan has revealed that he is suffering from neuroendocrine tumour.
Yesterday he tweeted to his fan and cleared the confusion that he is actually suffering from neuroendocrine tumour.
In a first instance, neuroendocrine tumour sounds to be a disease related to our brain but it is not so.
Neuroendocrine tumour is completely different kind of disease not related to the brain.
In this article, we will try to understand what this neuroendocrine tumour is what are its causes and symptoms.
So let’s get started.
What is neuroendocrine tumour?
Our body consists of lots of neuroendocrine cells scattered in almost all organ. The tumour of neuroendocrine cell is called as neuroendocrine tumour.
So to understand neuroendocrine tumour we need to first understand what is neuroendocrine cell where it is present in our body and what is its function.
Neuroendocrine cell
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Neuroendocrine word is a combination of two-word Neuro and Endocrine.
- Neuro means Nerve cells or neurones
- Endocrine means hormonal cells that release hormones
So neuroendocrine cell is actually a nerve type of cells which also releases hormones in our body.
It is almost present in all of the organ of our body but it is mainly present on gastrointestinal tract.
- Gastrointestinal tract which includes stomach, colon, small intestine, large intestine.
- The respiratory tract includes lungs and bronchi.
The function of neuroendocrine cells.
Neuroendocrine cells receive the signal or from our brain and accordingly acts buy secreting hormones in the blood.
So, whenever there is a change in our body our brain senses it sends signals to neuroendocrine cells. Neuroendocrine cells after receiving the signal response to it by the release of hormones as per the need of the body.
This we can understand by example.
For example, when we take food which is stored in our stomach, the neuroendocrine cells that are scattered on the walls of the stomach receives the signal that there is some food in our stomach that is needed to be broken down or digested.
After receiving the signal the neuroendocrine cells of the stomach releases the digestive enzymes in the stomach and breaks down the food which.
- They control our digestive system release of digestive enzymes also controls the movement of food by controlling the peristalsis.
- They control our blood pressure.
- It also controls our sexual behaviour like the release of sperm and ovarian cycle.
- They control the release of growth hormone which helps our body to grow.
Symptoms of neuroendocrine tumour.
Symptoms of neuroendocrine tumour depend upon which of the organ is affected if it is gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumour then the common symptoms would be
- Abdominal pain and discomfort
- Diarrhoea
- Nausea and vomiting
- Indigestion and constipation
Symptoms of lung neuroendocrine tumour
- Difficulty in breathing
- Continuously coughing
- Sometimes the cough is accompanied by coughing up of blood
- Loss of stamina and feeling of fatigue very soon
Reference: Neuroendocrine Tumour
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