In future clinical practice OTP may enable clinicians to reduce the diagnostic burden and related distress and reduce costs of long-term radiological assessments in patients with a pulmonary carcinoid.
Low mRNA expression levels of CD44 (P = 1.8e(-5)) and OTP (P = 0.00054), and high levels of RET (P = 0.025), were strongly associated with a low 20-year survival of carcinoid patients.