 Hello friends, I am Dr. Anurag Saxena, Head of Department of Neurosurgery at Manipal Hospital Zidwarkar. Today we are going to talk about neuroendocrine tumors. As the name suggests, these kind of tumors arise from cells which are neuroendocrine in nature, which means they have traits or characteristics of both nerve cells as well as endocrine cells, which means the cells which produce hormone. So these kind of tumors can produce hormones and can cause problems. Now they can occur in any part of the body. They can occur in your GI tract, pantries, lungs. They can also be found in CNS systems like brain and spine. And their symptoms largely depend on their location and whether they are producing any hormone or not. So on location you can have a lump in your abdomen, you can have headaches, you can have pain in your abdomen, you can have weight loss. The symptoms which are related to hormone production by these tumors are increased loose motions, flushing and symptoms of increased headache, vascular headaches and so on and so forth. The diagnosis of these kind of tumors largely depend on imaging modalities like PET scan and MRI scan, CT scans. At the same time, blood tests are done to know whether these tumors are producing any sort of hormones, which helps us to detect what kind of tumor it is and help us to devise a treatment plan for these kind of tumors. The treatment of neuroendocrine tumors likely depend on the location as well as the extent of the spread of these kind of tumors. But the main stay of these kind of tumors is surgery. The goal is to remove them completely. If not, then there are other therapies available like chemotherapy and radotherapy. Currently targeted therapy is the latest modality which we are using which uses special therapies to target the tumor cells. And obviously because the target only the tumor cells, the risk and the complications of these kind of therapies are minimum. I hope this video was helpful to give you the required information for these kind of tumors. Thank you.