Table 2.

Distribution of malignant digestive endocrine tumours (%) by stage at diagnosis and treatment according to period at diagnosis

	1976–1987 (n = 55)	1988–1999 (n = 174)	p Value
Stage	20.0	24.3	0.810
Limited to the organ	21.8	20.7
Lymph node metastasis	58.2	55.0
Visceral metastasis or unresected tumours
Treatment	61.8	52.1	0.070
Resection for cure	14.6	21.3
Palliative resection
Other palliative treatments	23.6	26.6