Given the new 2022 WHO classification of pituitary tumors, should we be regularly counseling our patients about the risk of malignancy for what we previously referred to as pituitary adenomas but now classified as pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs)?

Absolutely not. Metastatic pituitary adenomas are exceedingly rare. The term PitNet is unnecessarily alarming for patients with these benign disorders and also does not provide a clinically relevant outcome classification. Accordingly, The Pituitary Society has not adopted the term PitNet and prefer...