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

U. Knigge, 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

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Abstract

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 - Sept 2017

Keywords

  • 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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