Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Digestive Neuroendocrine Tumors: The Second Event and Some Final Considerations.

The article discusses the highlights of the second Consensus Conference on the management of patients with digestive neuroendocrine tumors, held in Frascati, Italy from November 1-4, 2006. Fifty-six experts in the field of digestive endocrine tumors from 18 countries attended the conference. It was divided sequentially into five sessions devoted to specific topics on an anatomical basis, such as small intestine, colon and rectum, appendix, metastatic liver, and poorly-differentiated endocrine carcinomas of hindgut and midgut origin.