If you or your loved one has been diagnosed with a gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumor, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is ready to help. Our experienced team of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals is dedicated to providing the highest-quality treatment, counseling, and follow-up care for patients with neuroendocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal system.
At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, our neuroendocrine tumor are expert at treating this rare type of tumor and are working to find new, targeted treatments for patients.
Neuroendocrine tumors can arise in a variety of organs, such as the small intestine, rectum, appendix, colon, liver, lungs, pancreas, skin, and adrenal gland.
About two-thirds of all carcinoid tumors appear in the gastrointestinal system -- in the small intestine, rectum, stomach, colon, and liver. However, carcinoid tumors represent only 1 percent of cancers found in the gastrointestinal system.
Neuroendocrine tumors found in the pancreas are known as pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Only 5 percent of pancreatic tumors begin in the islet cells.
Some neuroendocrine tumors found in the gastrointestinal tract are made of fast-growing cancer cells, and respond to different treatments than those used for carcinoid tumors.
We offer a range of services to help patients manage some of the other issues that may arise as a result of neuroendocrine tumor diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up treatment.
