Endocrine Abstracts

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...