VIPoma natural history, complications and prognosis

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Overview

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Prognosis

  • Surgery can usually cure VIPomas. However, in one-third to one-half of patients, the tumor has spread by the time of diagnosis and cannot be cured.
  • VIPoma is associated with a 5 year survival rate of 20% and 3 year survival rate of 40%.[1]

References

  1. Smith, Stephen L.; Branton, Susan A.; Avino, Anthony J.; Martin, J.Kirk; Klingler, Paul J.; Thompson, Geoffrey B.; Grant, Clive S.; van Heerden, Jon A. (1998). "Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide secreting islet cell tumors: A 15-year experience and review of the literature". Surgery. 124 (6): 1050–1055. doi:10.1067/msy.1998.92005. ISSN 0039-6060.


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