NCUK Virtual Patient Handbook

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ken more than 100 years ago, when the term ‘Karzinoide’ (German ). inion and concluded that although rate of growth may be different, d cancers - however the term Carcinoid persists. s to convey the malignant potential that most neuroendocrine es the misconception that all neuroendocrine cancers produce the

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