Incidence, survival, and prevalence of neuroendocrine tumors versus neuroblastoma in children and young adults: Nine standard SEER registries, 1975–2006

While survivorship has significantly increased for neuroblastoma, those diagnosed with NETs have shown no increase in survival during this 31-year period. NETs constitute an unrecognized cancer threat to children and young adults comparable to neuroblastoma in both number of affected persons and disease severity.