Research Article

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

Table 8

Other tumor types recorded in bronchial NET patients diagnosed, treated, or followed-up at our institution from 1st January 1995 to 31st December 2015 ().

Non-NET tumors that occurred in patients with a bronchial NETNumber of patients (and %)

Total number of patients with other tumors14 (30.4%)
Total number of other tumors17 (37.0%)
 (i) Before the diagnosis of bronchial NET
 (ii) Synchronous tumors
 (iii) Metachronous tumors
(i) 5/17 (29.4%)
(ii) 8/17 (47.1%)
(iii) 4/17 (23.5%)
Tumor types
 (i) Cheek squamous cell carcinoma
 (ii) Colorectal cancer
 (iii) Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of unknown primary
 (iv) Lung squamous cell carcinoma
 (v) Renal cancer
 (vi) Salivary gland benign cystic tumor
 (vii) Lung adenocarcinoma
 (viii) Thyroid cancer
 (ix) Atrial myxoma
 (x) Breast cancer
 (xi) Ovarian cancer
 (xii) Melanoma
 (xiii) Basal cell carcinoma
(i) 1 (5.9%)
(ii) 2 (11.8%)
(iii) 1 (5.9%)
(iv) 3 (17.6%)
(v) 2 (11.8%)
(vi) 1 (5.9%)
(vii) 1 (5.9%)
(viii) 1 (5.9%)
(ix) 1 (5.9%)
(x) 1 (5.9%)
(xi) 1 (5.9%)
(xii) 1 (5.9%)
(xiii) 1 (5.9%)

: number of patients.