Relative incidence is given as percentage of all functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Some PanNETs do not cause any symptoms, in which case they...
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Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are neoplasms that arise from cells of the endocrine (hormonal) and nervous systems. They most commonly occur in the intestine...
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also arise from these cells. About 1–2% of cases of pancreatic cancer are neuroendocrine tumors, which arise from the hormone-producing cells of the...
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(ductal, acinar, neuroendocrine, other) and gross appearance (intraductal, cystic, solid). Each different type of pancreatic tumor has a different appearance...
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Steve Jobs (category Deaths from pancreatic cancer in California)
1999 to 2002. In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. He died of tumor-related respiratory arrest in 2011; in 2022, he was...
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medicine, a nesidioblastoma is an uncommon, insulin-secreting, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PanNET). The term dates to at least 1938. In that report,...
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Gastrinomas are neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), usually located in the duodenum or pancreas, that secrete gastrin and cause a clinical syndrome known as...
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Sunitinib (section Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors)
treatment of 'unresectable or metastatic, well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors with disease progression in adults'. In May 2011, the USFDA...
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production, secretion, and resistance. Betatrophin Neuroendocrine tumor Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans, a novelette...
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cells. Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors may sometimes undergo cystic degeneration forming cysts. These types of tumors arise from pancreatic endocrine...
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