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Krystallenia I Alexandraki Department of Surgery, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Gregory A Kaltsas Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Neuroendocrine Tumor Unit, ENETS Center of Excellence, Hadassah Medical Organization and Faculty of Medicine, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC), either functioning or nonfunctioning and the combination cisplatin/etoposide is the most popular ( Baudin et al. 2013 ). Overall, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), doxorubicin, and streptozotocin have been commonly used in the treatment of

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Alaa Sada Department of Surgery, Division of Endocrinology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Division of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

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Travis J McKenzie Department of Surgery, Division of Endocrinology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Division of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

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Adrian Vella Department of Surgery, Division of Endocrinology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Division of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

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Michael J Levy Department of Surgery, Division of Endocrinology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Division of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

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Thorvardur R Halfdanarson Department of Surgery, Division of Endocrinology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Division of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

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Introduction In 1926, Dr William J Mayo operated on a patient with hypoglycemia induced by metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET) which led to the first description of insulinoma ( Wilder et al. 1927 ). Although the first

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Wouter W de Herder Department of Internal Medicine, Sector of Endocrinology, Erasmus MC & Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, ENETS Center of Excellence, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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Günter Klöppel Department of Pathology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

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two hormones. This review is a sequel to the discovery of insulin and glucagon and introduces the history of this fascinating group of neuroendocrine neoplasms and hyperplasias of the pancreas. Pancreatic islets Pancreatic islet cells were

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