Current status of clinical treatment for patients with pancreatic neuroendocine tumors in Japan

Abstract

In Japan there have been a number of great scholars in the field of neuroendocrine science. However, we have failed to maintain our clinical treatment system for patients with pNET up to the international standard level. Therefore we have an urgent need to introduce a few important treatment tools for NET. To address this issue, we have recently begun hard work to produce Japanese guidelines for the treatment of pNET based on Japanese clinical studies.