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ea0016p338 | Endocrine tumours | ECE2008

Gastric NETs: new diagnostic and therapeutic approach

Hubalewska-Dydejczyk A , Gilis-Januszewska A , Szybinski P , Sowa-Staszczak A , Klek S , Huszno B , Kulig J

The incidence of GNT appears to be increasing, what can be explained by the increased detection caused by the common use of the endoscopy and the pervasive use of acid suppressive therapy leading to enterochromatofine like cells proliferation. There are numerous new diagnostic/therapeutic GNT methods in use like: EUS, SRS, somatostatin therapy and 90Y/177Lu-DOTA-TATE radiotherapy.Materials and methods: In 1998–2007, 25 patients were diagnosed with t...