Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Digestive Neuroendocrine Tumors: Why Such Guidelines and How We Went about It.

The article focuses on the efforts European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) to create consensus guidelines for diagnosing and treating patients with digestive neuroendocrine tumors, during its conference in Frascati, Italy in November 2005. The event was divided into 8 sessions devoted to specific topics on an anatomical basis including gastric NET, doudenal NET and pancreatic NET. Each discussion had a chairperson responsible for the case presentation and for conducting the general assembly toward consensus.