NCUK Virtual Patient Handbook

By the 1950’s. it was more widely accepted that ‘Carcinoids’ could indeed behave like common cancers. While many may takes years to develop and then grow slowly, others could behave more aggressively - and that all have the potential to spread to other parts of the body, regardless of their rate of growth However, how or why, neuroendocrine cancers occur is still not fully understood. But we can apply some of the knowledge we have about normal cells and common cancer cell development, to try to explain how they grow and behave.

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