Among endocrinologists, there are only few specialists professionally engaged in oncoendocrinology, despite the undoubted importance of this branch of medicine. Suffice it to say that approximately 30-35% of all neoplasms are represented by tumors of hormone-dependent somatic tissues. And if you recollect neuroendocrine tumors and tumors of the glands of internal secretion, the expressed opinion finds one more serious confirmation.

Hopefully, the VII German-Russian Seminar on Endocrinology and Diabetology, which in 2018 has chosen as a topic a series of aspects of the endocrinology of malignant tumors, will enrich both listeners and lecturers with new and useful information.