ENETS Consensus Recommendations for the Standards of Care in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Follow-Up and Documentation
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ENETS consensus recommendations for the standards of care in neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN) concerning follow-up and documentation are considered in this review. The documentation of patients with NEN should include the most relevant data characterizing an individual patient from the first contact with his/her physician/hospital until his/her last presentation during follow-up. It is advocated that follow-up occurs in specialized NEN centers with regular NEN tumor boards with expert panels. The follow-up should be in accordance with the ENETS consensus guidelines from 2011 and 2016, the present and coming WHO classification and ENETS/UICC recommendations for TNM staging. The recommendations for follow-up in patients with thymic, bronchopulmonary and gastroenteropancreatic NEN are given in Table 1. However, it should be stressed that evidence-based studies for follow-up are largely missing.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Neuroendocrinology |
Volume | 105 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 310-319 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISSN | 0028-3835 |
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Publication status | Published - Sep 2017 |
- 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid, Chromogranin A, Follow-up, Functional imaging, Neuroendocrine carcinoma, Neuroendocrine neoplasm, Neuroendocrine tumor, Neuron-specific enolase, NT-pro-brain natriuretic peptide, Somatostatin receptor imaging, TNM staging
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