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Épidémiologie des tumeurs neuroendocrines intestinales

2017

International audience; Few data are available about the epidemiology of digestive neuroendocrine tumours (NETs). Malignant digestive (MD) NETs remain as a rare cancer representing 1 % of digestive cancers. In France, the incidence rates of MD-NETs are estimated to around 1.1/100,000 inhabitants in males and 0.9/100,000 in females which then increased over time, with probably more than 1,000 new cases per year. Due to the relative good prognosis, NETs are the second more prevalent digestive cancer next to colorectal cancer. Most gastroenteropancreatic NETs are well-differentiated (WD-NETs); poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas (PDNEC) account for less than 20% of the cases in mos…