Home parenteral nutrition in neuroendocrine tumour intestinal failure: improved quality of life and longevity.
Vandana M SagarTahir ShahHardip MalhiSharmalie ParkinsonShishir ShettySheldon C CooperPublished in: BMJ supportive & palliative care (2020)
HPN is commenced to improve or maintain patients' nutritional status during often lifelong treatment. The principle aim in providing HPN was to improve survival and quality of life. While NETs are cancers, our case series demonstrates the potential of HPN to actively support longer term survival in the subgroup of patients who develop IF.