The cause was endocrine cancer, which he had fought for many years, said his brother, Bryan.

Paul Carey died in 2001 from a rare endocrine cancer called Pheochromocytoma.

He is currently employed by the Division of Medicine, University of Birmingham as Reader in Endocrine Cancer.

A small subset of endocrine pancreatic tumors are incontrovertible pancreatic endocrine cancers, that make up about 1% of pancreas cancers.

His presentations mainly focus on different types of endocrine cancers, such as "Institutional experience in laparoscopic staging of pancreatic carcinoma" presented in Veracruz during the XXIII Congress of General Surgery.

His son, Stephen, was diagnosed as an infant with a rare form of endocrine cancer but lived a normal childhood and became an insurance broker in Florida; however, during a 2003 surgery, his heart stopped and he suffered brain damage that left him in a semi-comatose state.

Outcomes with pancreatic endocrine tumors, many of which are benign and completely without clinical symptoms, are much better, as are outcomes with symptomatic benign tumors; even with actual pancreatic endocrine cancers, outcomes are rather better, but variable.

Anaplastic thyroid cancer is rare, and Dr. Steven I. Sherman, chairman of the endocrine cancer department at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, cautioned against jumping to the conclusion that this was the chief justice's diagnosis.