Chemotherapy for Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
By Ronny Allan – Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer Chemotherapy has a long and complicated history in the management of Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (NENs) (an umbrella term for both Neuroendocrine Tumours (NET) and Neuroendocrine Carcinomas (NEC)). Unlike many other cancers, most well‑differentiated NETs are relatively resistant to traditional cytotoxic chemotherapy. However, chemotherapy remains an important option for specific subtypes, particularly higher‑grade disease, and certain anatomical sites. There's a myth that circulates the NET patient groups along the lines of "chemotherapy does not work for NETs". That's not entirely true or at best totally out of context. However, it's true to say that…
