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Open AccessAnalyses of sex-based clinicopathological differences among patients with gastrointestinal neuroendocrine neoplasms in Europe
Previous studies have found variations in cancer types, tumor progression, and disease outcomes between men and women. However, there is limited knowledge of the effect of sex on gastrointestinal neuroendocrin...
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Open AccessDistribution of gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors in Europe: results from a retrospective cross-sectional study
Gastrointestinal (non-pancreatic) neuroendocrine tumors (GI-NETs) represent a rare but increasingly common tumor entity. Prognosis and biological behavior of these tumors is extremely heterogenous and largely ...