Dong and colleagues present a retrospective study evaluating risk factors associated with tumor recurrence for patients with non-functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. This study includes over 800 patients from the US Neuroendocrine Study Group. The results of their study indicate that
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: What are they?
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (otherwise known as islet cell carcinoma or islet cell tumors) are a type of neuroendocrine tumor (NET) found in the pancreas. While a large portion of tumors found in the pancreas are adenocarcinoma (the most common type