Distribution, Incidence, and Prognosis in Neuroendocrine Tumors: a Population Based Study from a Cancer Registry

Neuroendocrine tumors are considered rare tumors: recently an increased incidence and an improvement in survival were described. We explore distribution, incidence and survival of neuroendocrine tumors using population based registry data. We extracted from the Tuscan Cancer Registry neuroendocrine tumors from 1985–2005, and we evaluated distribution, incidence ad survival according to sex, site of tumor, age and stage at diagnosis. 455 cases of...