Un istituto di riferimento dove la ricerca sui tumori diventa cura in tempo reale

Rationale

Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) represent a group of rare malignancies. They are heterogeneous in terms of clinical and biological behavior. They can develop from many sites all over our body, mainly in digestive tract. At diagnosis they are usually advanced, non functioning and expressing somatostatin receptors at scintigraphy or PET-CT. Unfortunately although an increasing awareness diagnosis is late or missing sometimes, prognosis not always well estimated and therapeutic approach heterogeneous.
Increasing incidence and high prevalence of these neoplasms make probable the opportunity to face this type of diseases in our clinical practice.
Therefore it is crucial for clinicians having a homogeneous view and clinical way of approaching. Staging and characterization of NENs should be based on both morphological and functional imaging tools, which are continuously evolving.
Therapeutic options have been increasing over the last decade and we moved from a difficulty linked to the poorness of therapies to a sort of decisional embarace related with several different therapies potentially effective in the same clinical context.
For clinicians who have to manage patients with NENs a collaboration with a referral center is strongly recommended.
This course can help clinicians to achieve a homogeneous multidisciplinary diagnostic/therapeutic algorithm With its interactive formula this course can transfer criteria of thinking for diagnostic/therapeutic approach, based on evidence, experience, expertise, guidelines and experts recommendations.