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Hormonal and Rare Conditions Neuroendocrine Tumors Surgery
Surgery
Treating GEP-NETs

Surgery

Wherever possible, surgery is the preferred treatment as it is the best way to get rid of the tumour completely if it hasn’t spread.

If the GEP-NET can’t be completely removed, you might still have surgery to help reduce the tumour and relieve some of the symptoms it is causing.1

There are different surgeries for different GEP-NETs. Your doctor will talk to other specialists in what is known as an MDT (multidisciplinary team) so that each expert can advise on the best way forward. This will depend on:

Where the tumour is. What the tumour looks like (is it small and self-contained? Are the cells mostly normal or very abnormal?). Whether the tumour has spread?

References

  1. CRUK. Surgery for neuroendocrine cancer. Available at: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/neuroendocrine-tumours-nets/treatment/surgery. Last accessed April 2025.