Guide To The Types of Pituitary Tumors

When an individual experiences the development of abnormal growth in their pituitary gland, it is referred to as a pituitary tumor. Pituitary gland tumors may be malignant and spread around the body, or they may be noncancerous. While most benign growths in the body do not cause problems when they are small in size, that is not the case with many types of pituitary tumors. The endocrine system in the body contains numerous glands that communicate and command each other to take action through the release of hormones. A tumor that develops in the pituitary gland can cause the gland to produce an excessive amount of one or more hormones, which then causes other glands around the body to overproduce hormones. Other types of pituitary tumors can destroy the cells in the pituitary gland that produce one or more hormones, resulting in a hormone deficiency.