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Adrenocortical carcinoma is a cancer that begins in your adrenal cortex. This is the outside layer of your adrenal gland.
Adrenocortical carcinoma is also referred to by other names. It is also called adrenal cancer, cancer of the adrenal cortex, adrenocortical cancer and adrenal carcinoma.
Fortunately, adrenocortical carcinoma is rare. It affects one or two people per one million in population.
It usually develops in adults who are in their 30s and 40s. There is also a childhood form of the disease that usually occurs in children under 5.
Adrenocortical carcinoma may not cause any signs or symptoms in its early stage. As it progresses, there are many different signs and symptoms that this disease may produce depending on whether you are a boy or girl, man or woman and which hormone this cancer is producing too much of. Adrenocortical carcinoma can cause too much testosterone, cortisol, aldosterone or estrogen.
If there is too much testosterone in women:
- Balding
- No menstrual periods
- Fine hair growth on your arms, upper back or face
- Deepening voice
- Acne
- Men making too much testosterone usually have no symptoms.
If there is too much cortisol:
- A lump of fat on the back of your neck
- High blood pressure
- Fine hair growth on your arms, upper back or face
- Round, red, full face
- High blood sugar
- Weight gain in your neck, face and the trunk of your body with thin legs and arms
- Muscle weakness
- Deepening of your voice and swelling of your breasts or sex organs in both women and men.
If there is too much aldosterone:
- Frequent urination
- High blood pressure
- A feeling of thirst
- Muscle cramps or weakness.
If there is too much estrogen in women:
- Menstrual bleeding in those who have passed through menopause
- Irregular menstrual periods in younger women.
If there is too much estrogen in men:
- Impotence
- Growth of breast tissue
- Lower sex drive.
You or your child with disability may have adrenocortical carcinoma. It may be why you are disabled and unable to work.
Do you need help because of this disability? Do you need financial assistance?
Have you applied for that financial help from the Social Security Administration for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits for you or your child with disability because of the disability caused by adrenocortical carcinoma? Were you or your child with disability turned down?
If you are planning on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something that you always need to remember. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people without a lawyer.
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