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When would you consider adjuvant chemotherapy for resected, intermediate grade lung neuroendocrine tumors?

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Medical Oncology · University of Michigan Medical School

Per WHO classifications, these tumors would be called atypical carcinoids in the lung and well differentiated neuroendocrine tumors, grade 2-3 in the GI tract. I'm not sure why the two systems of classification have not been aligned.

As an intermediate grade tumor, atypical carcinoids have higher pot...

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