Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Neuroendocrine tumors of the lung (BP-NETs) are fairly rare tumors with very heterogeneous behavior and molecular characteristics. They are very heterogeneous concerning their malignancy, ranging from slow proliferating carcinoids (typical (TC) and atypical carcinoids (ATC)) to very aggressive large cell neuroendocrine carcinomas (LCNEC) and small cell lung cancers (SCLC). For the highly proliferative BP-NETs, combined chemotherapy is the standard therapy option,...