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OncologyModerate
Neuroendocrine Tumour
Nuclear Medicine · Oncology
Moderate
Severity
Rare — affects approximately 5 in 100,000 people annually, though incidence has been rising with improved detection
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Nuclear Medicine
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Neuroendocrine tumours arise from genetic mutations within specialized hormone-producing cells that cause them to grow and divide uncontrollably
- 2similar to other cancers
- 3though the specific triggering mutations often differ from more common cancer types. Some cases are linked to inherited genetic syndromes such as multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
- 4which significantly increases the risk of developing multiple neuroendocrine tumours over a lifetime. In most cases
- 5however
- 6the tumour arises sporadically without an identifiable inherited cause.
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