The situation around GEP-MiNENs in Italy

Two studies from Italy present 20-year-old real-world data on patients with GEP-MiNENs treated with chemotherapy and the female leadership in the field.

1) This Italian real-world analysis confirms that GEP-MiNENs represent a complex disease and that the clinical management has been predominantly guided by the subjective judgment of clinicians over the past 20 years. Future prospective clinical and biomolecular trials are urgently needed to a personalized and successful clinical approach.

An Italian real-world multicenter study of patients with advanced mixed neuroendocrine non-neuroendocrine neoplasms (MiNENs) of the gastro-entero-pancreatic system treated with chemotherapy

Authors: Francesca Spada, Massimo Milione, Patrick Maisonneuve, Natalie Prinzi, Valeria Smiroldo, Elena Bolzacchini, Sara Pusceddu, Carlo Carnaghi, Fausto Sessa, Stefano La Rosa, Silvia Uccella, and Nicola Fazio.

2) Female Italian authorship on NENs has been increasing over the last 5 years even if senior authorship continues to be primarily men. Effort should be still made to balance gender representation.

Authorship of Italian medical literature on neuroendocrine neoplasms: any gender gap?

Authors: Roberta Elisa Rossi, Anna La Salvia, Roberta Modica, and Francesca Spada.