Surgical Treatment of Patients with Poorly Differentiated Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: An NCDB Analysis.
Sarah R KaslowGerardo A VitielloKatherine PrendergastLeena HaniSteven M CohenChristopher WolfgangRussell S BermanAnn Y LeeCamilo Correa-GallegoPublished in: Annals of surgical oncology (2022)
Poorly differentiated panNEC exhibits poorer survival than well-differentiated panNET. In the current cohort, surgical resection was strongly and independently associated with improved OS, suggesting that patients with panNEC who are suitable operative candidates should be considered for multimodality therapy, including surgery.