NTS and cancer: Neurotensin deregulation has been observed in many cancers such as in colonic adenocarcinomas, small cell lung carcinomas, non-small cell lung adenocarcinomas, medullary thyroid carcinomas, and in fibrolamellar HCCs (Baca and Schmidt-Gayk, 1981; Ulich et al., 1983; Moody et al., 1985; Dammrich et al., 1988; Ehrenfried et al., 1994).