ReviewCellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology2015
Decoding the Molecular and Mutational Ambiguities of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasm Pathobiology.
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- Biomarker-directed aptamer panels for diagnosis and differentiation of neuroendocrine tumors.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Autoimmune gastritis potentiates polypoid nodule scar formation after endoscopic resection: implications for risk-stratified surveillance.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Postoperative adrenal crisis and atrial tachycardia associated with an ectopic ACTH-secreting thymic neuroendocrine tumor: a case report and literature review.BMC endocrine disorders · 2026Review
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- A Comprehensive Review on Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Presentation, Pathophysiology and Management.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Circulating Neuroendocrine Tumor Biomarkers: Past, Present and Future.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
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- New insights in diagnosis and treatment of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms.World journal of gastroenterology · 2022Review
- Somatostatin Analogue Therapy in MEN1-Related Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors from Evidence to Clinical Practice: A Systematic Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Gene Expression Signatures Identify Novel Therapeutics for Metastatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2020Article
- Combination treatments to enhance peptide receptor radionuclide therapy of neuroendocrine tumours.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2020Review
- Prognostic Significance of Somatostatin Receptor Heterogeneity in Progressive Neuroendocrine Tumor Treated with Lu-177 DOTATOC or Lu-177 DOTATATE.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2020Article
- The clinical applications of a multigene liquid biopsy (NETest) in neuroendocrine tumors.Advances in medical sciences · 2020Review
- The Evolving Treatment Algorithm for Advanced Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Diversity and Commonalities Across Tumor Types.The oncologist · 2019Review
- The NETest: The Clinical Utility of Multigene Blood Analysis in the Diagnosis and Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors.Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America · 2018Review
- Multilayered heterogeneity as an intrinsic hallmark of neuroendocrine tumors.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2018Review
- Pathophysiology of Gastric NETs: Role of Gastrin and Menin.Current gastroenterology reports · 2017Review
- Towards a new classification of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2016Review
- A Delphic consensus assessment: imaging and biomarkers in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor disease management.Endocrine connections · 2016Article
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Abstract
Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP-NEN), considered a heterogeneous neoplasia, exhibit ill-defined pathobiology and protean symptomatology and are ubiquitous in location. They are difficult to diagnose, challenging to manage, and outcome depends on cell type, secretory product, histopathologic grading, and organ of origin. A morphologic and molecular genomic review of these lesions highlights tumor characteristics that can be used clinically, such as somatostatin-receptor expression, and confirms features that set them outside the standard neoplasia paradigm. Their unique pathobiology is useful for developing diagnostics using somatostatin-receptor targeted imaging or uptake of radiolabeled amino acids specific to secretory products or metabolism. Therapy has evolved via targeting of protein kinase B signaling or somatostatin receptors with drugs or isotopes (peptide-receptor radiotherapy). With DNA sequencing, rarely identified activating mutations confirm that tumor suppressor genes are relevant. Genomic approaches focusing on cancer-associated genes and signaling pathways likely will remain uninformative. Their uniquely dissimilar molecular profiles mean individual tumors are unlikely to be easily or uniformly targeted by therapeutics currently linked to standard cancer genetic paradigms. The prevalence of menin mutations in pancreatic NEN and P27
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