When would you consider adjuvant chemotherapy for resected, intermediate grade lung neuroendocrine tumors?
Pathology is not carcinoid or small cell.
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
Per WHO classifications, these tumors would be called atypical carcinoids in the lung and well differentiated neuroendocrine tumors, grade 2-3 in the GI tract. I'm not sure why the two systems of classification have not been aligned.As an intermediate grade tumor, atypical carcinoids have higher pot...