GH1 and pituitary gland adenoma: A recent Swedish study involving 426 patients with non-functioning pituitary adenomas—of whom 207 received GH therapy for a median period of 12.2 years and 219 were untreated patients with a median follow-up of 8.2 years—showed a reduced overall mortality in GH-treated patients compared with the general population and found that death due to malignancy was not increased in GH-treated patients67.