ENETS Consensus Recommendations for the Standards of Care in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Follow-Up and Documentation

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  • Knigge, Ulrich
  • J. Capdevila
  • D. K. Bartsch
  • E. Baudin
  • J. Falkerby
  • R. Kianmanesh
  • B. Kos-Kudla
  • B. Niederle
  • E. Nieveen Van Dijkum
  • D. O'Toole
  • A. Pascher
  • N. Reed
  • A. Sundin
  • M. P. Vullierme
  • all other Antibes Consensus Conference participants

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 languageEnglish
JournalNeuroendocrinology
Volume105
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)310-319
Number of pages10
ISSN0028-3835
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sep 2017

    Research areas

  • 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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