Table 2.
Distribution of lung and gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms between 1976 and 2016 in two Swiss regions by tumor type.
| Lung NENs | GEP NENs | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distribution | Distribution | Distribution | ||||
| Tumor type | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| NET, total | 225 | 7.4 | 962 | 87.5 | 1187 | 28.7 |
| Carcinoid tumor | 204 | 90.7 | 827 | 86.0 | 1031 | 86.9 |
| Enterochromaffin cell carcinoid | 2 | 0.9 | 27 | 2.8 | 29 | 2.4 |
| Enterochromaffin‐like cell carcinoid | 1 | 0.4 | 10 | 1.0 | 11 | 0.9 |
| Tubular carcinoid | ‐ | ‐ | 5 | 0.5 | 5 | 0.4 |
| Atypical carcinoid | 18 | 8.0 | 46 | 4.8 | 64 | 5.4 |
| Islet cell carcinoma | ‐ | ‐ | 6 | 0.6 | 6 | 0.5 |
| Insulinoma | ‐ | ‐ | 25 | 2.6 | 25 | 2.1 |
| Glucagonoma | ‐ | ‐ | 7 | 0.7 | 7 | 0.6 |
| Gastrinoma | ‐ | ‐ | 8 | 0.8 | 8 | 0.7 |
| Somatostatinoma | ‐ | ‐ | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| NEC, total | 2816 | 92.6 | 138 | 12.6 | 2954 | 71.3 |
| Small cell carcinoma | 2670 | 94.8 | 41 | 29.7 | 2711 | 91.8 |
| Large cell carcinoma | 90 | 3.2 | 11 | 8.0 | 101 | 3.4 |
| NEC, NOS | 56 | 2 | 86 | 62.3 | 142 | 4.8 |
Abbreviations: GEP, gastroenteropancreatic; NEC, neuroendocrine carcinomas; NEN, neuroendocrine neoplasms; NET, neuroendocrine tumors; NOS, not otherwise specified.