Where Neuroendocrine Neoplasms Begin, and Why the Answer Is Not Always “Neuroendocrine Cells”

By Anna C. Greene, PhD, NETRF Chief Scientific Officer A new open-access review article in Virchows Archiv, “Novel concepts of cell-of-origin in neuroendocrine neoplasms,” by Ilaria Marinoni, Simona Avanthay, and Nicolas Alcala, asks a deceptively simple question: what normal cell does a neuroendocrine neoplasm start from? Neuroendocrine neoplasms, or NENs, are an umbrella term that … Continue reading Where Neuroendocrine Neoplasms Begin, and Why the Answer Is Not Always “Neuroendocrine Cells”