Less than a third of patients had been treated prior to enrollment with surgical resection (R1 or R2 resection), percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI; range 1-5 sessions), transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE; range 1-7 sessions) or systemic hormone- and/or chemotherapy (somatostatin in 7/14 cases; single or combination therapy with tamoxifen, doxorubicin or platin derivates), but suffered from tumor progression. Here, SST is linked to neoplasm.