Surgery Versus Surveillance for WellâDifferentiated, Nonfunctional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: An 11âYear Analysis of the National Cancer Database
Assi HA, Mukherjee S, Kunz PL, Machiorlatti M, Vesely S, Pareek V, Hatoum H. Surgery Versus Surveillance for WellâDifferentiated, Nonfunctional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: An 11âYear Analysis of the National Cancer Database. The Oncologist 2019, 25: e276-e283. PMID: 32043766, PMCID: PMC7011621, DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2019-0466.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNational Cancer DatabaseIndependent prognostic factorPancreatic neuroendocrine tumorsCharlson-Deyo comorbidity scoreNonfunctional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumorsImproved overall survivalSurgical resectionNF-PanNETOverall survivalPrognostic factorsTumor sizeNeuroendocrine tumorsActive surveillanceCancer DatabaseComorbidity scoreClinicopathologic characteristicsLarge tumorsTumor locationProspective randomized clinical trialsSafe approachActive interventionLarge asymptomatic tumorTumor size 1Underwent surgical resectionPatients' clinicopathologic characteristics
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