How is carcinoid syndrome treated?

How is carcinoid syndrome treated?

Carcinoid syndrome is a sign you might have neuroendocrine tumors. Treating the tumors also treats your carcinoid syndrome. Those treatments include:

• Surgery. Surgery to remove or reduce the size of your neuroendocrine tumors.
• Somatostatin analogs. Somatostatin analogs are a type of treatment that may stop your body from making too many hormones. This may slow down the growth of the tumor when cancer cells spread to other parts of your body.
• Targeted therapy. Targeted therapy is a type of treatment that uses drugs that target certain genes or proteins to kill cancer cells.
• Chemotherapy. This treatment uses drugs that destroy cancer cells.