Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumours

This episode covers everything you need to know about pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
- what they are
- classification into functional and non-functional
- risk factors and associated genetic syndromes
- the different types of functional tumours, how they present and their biochemical testing
- how to image localise and stage these tumours
- WHO grading and TNM staging
- management including which ones are suitable for surveillance, surgery, management of unresectable or metastatic disease, and medical management of the functional syndromes
- surveillance

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