Management and Follow-up of Patients with a Bronchial Neuroendocrine Tumor in the Last Twenty Years in Ireland: Expected Inconsistencies and Unexpected Discoveries

Table 4

Characteristics of bronchial NET patients managed at our institution divided in chronological time frames.

	1995–2000	2001–2005	2006–2010	2011–2015
	Age at the time of diagnosis (mean ± SD and range)	57.6 ± 25.4	40.5 ± 36.1	54.7 ± 13.8	56.7 ± 14.1
15–82		15–66	27–76	21–73
Gender ( and % females, and % males)	3 (60.0%)	1 (50.0%)	6 (30.0%)	12 (63.2%)
	2 (40.0%)	1 (50.0%)	14 (70.0%)	7 (36.8%)
Tumor type ( and %)
Typical	3 (60.0%)	1 (50.0%)	18 (90.0%)	15 (78.9%)
Atypical	1 (20.0%)	0 (0%)	1 (5.0%)	3 (15.8%)
Unknown	1 (20.0%)	1 (50.0%)	1 (5.0%)	1 (5.3%)
Metastatic disease ( and %)	1 (20%)	0 (0%)	1 (5.0%)	2 (10.5%)

: number of patients, SD: standard deviation.