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17th Annual Meeting of the UK and Ireland Neuroendocrine Tumour Society 2019

Birmingham, UK
02 Dec 2019 - 02 Dec 2019

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The Conference is your opportunity to join fellow clinicians, scientists, nurses and allied health care workers involved in the care and service of neuroendocrine tumour (NET) patients.

Speaker Abstracts

Liver Transplantation for NEN

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Intratumour Heterogeneity and tumour evolution in neuroendocrine cancers of the lung

Brownlee Lorelle , Bentham Robert , McGranahan Nicholas , Swanton Charles , Moore David , Jamal-Hanjani Mariam

Lung cancer is globally the biggest cause of cancer-related death, resulting in almost 1.6 million deaths per year. Neuroendocrine tumours amount to up to 25% of all lung cancer diagnoses. Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumours lie on a biological continuum of malignant behaviour, which range from the malignant, but relatively indolent, typical carcinoid tumours to small cell lung carcinoma- the most aggressive of the primary neuroendocrine lung tumours. Although small cell carcinom...