Evidence of Improved Survival When Patients are Referred on to a Specialist NET Clinic with Multidisciplinary Team Management

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Introduction: ENETs and UKINETs Guidelines emphasize that patients with NETs should be referred to NET specialist clinics (NSC) and these clinics should use a multidisciplinary team (MDT) for decision making. In Belfast there has been an NSC for several decades and an MDT since 2000.

Aim(s): To assess survival in patient referred or not to an NSC.

Materials and methods: All patients with midgut NETs in Northern Ireland, current between 2000 and 2012 were identified. Those referred to the NSC and those managed in other hospitals were noted. The NI Cancer Registry, the NSC and the NET specialist Lab were used to identify patients. Patients were followed to 31/9/2013 or to death. Patients confirmed by pathology or biomarkers, syndrome and/or somatostatin scintigraphy +ve were included. Patients were also age matched at diagnosis to closest age match, (limits +/-6M) to remove age bias in the clinic group.

Conference: 11th Annual ENETSConcerence (2014)

Presenting Author: Ardill J

Authors: Ardill J, McCance D, Johnston B,

Keywords: NET Clinics,