Endocrine Tumours: Epidemiology of malignant digestive neuroendocrine tumours
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Endocrine tumours: epidemiology of malignant digestive neuroendocrine tumours.
Little is known about patients with malignant digestive neuroendocrine tumours (MD-NETs). Although their incidence is increasing, MD-NETs remain a rare cancer, representing 1% of digestive cancers. Most MD-NETs are well-differentiated. MD-NET poorly differentiated carcinomas account for 20% of cases on average. Anatomical localisation of MD-NETs varied according to geographic region. Stage at d...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Endocrinology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0804-4643,1479-683X
DOI: 10.1530/eje-12-0418