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Introduction The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Neuroendocrine Tumor (NET) Summit conference proceedings of 2008 identified that a critical unmet need in the management of NET disease was the absence of a sensitive and specific set of tumor
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prevalence due to the more favorable prognosis ( 3 ). In Europe, the number of patients affected by NET in 2016 was estimated to be 292,971 ( 4 ). The skeletal system is a common site of metastasis for many solid tumors, but bone involvement by NETs has
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-peptide PET/CT (DOTA-PET/CT), are used for risk stratification. Consequently, DOTA-PET/CT is currently one of the few diagnostics in NET disease with a strong impact on clinical management. Its diagnostic sensitivity is superior to anatomical imaging, leading
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Introduction Small bowel (SB) neuroendocrine tumours (NET) are accruing significant clinical attention due to their increasing incidence ( 1 , 2 ) in addition to recent advances in their molecular biology ( 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) and treatment
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considered as important biochemical and pathological markers, respectively, for GEP NET clinical behaviour. The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system has been suggested as an important regulator of GEP NET proliferation and differentiation (2) . Up to
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function of ghrelin in NETs is not well understood. It has been suggested that ghrelin could be responsible for the striking maintenance of body mass index (BMI) that can be observed in NET patients ( 15 , 28 ). Although total serum ghrelin levels in NET
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extracellular trap (NET) ( 11 ). NET has been linked with pathogenesis of cancer, including proliferation of cancer cells, angiogenesis, awakening dormant cancer cells, and metastasis ( 12 , 13 ). Therefore, studies addressing the significant association of NET
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give rise to carcinoid syndrome as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in approximately 20% of SI-NET patients. To date, genetic and epigenetic alterations in SI-NETs are poorly studied. Massive DNA sequencing analysis on SI-NETs revealed that
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with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Oncology Outcomes Database, we identified all patients 18 years of age or older who presented to either UCSF or OSUMC for care of a NET on or after January 1, 2004 and before December 31, 2008
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initial characterizations and their management are varied and complex. Therefore, national ( 3 ) and international ( 4 , 5 , 6 ) guidelines were regularly updated to help physicians to optimize NEN management, both for neuroendocrine tumours (NET) and