Combination Systemic Therapies in Advanced Well-Differentiated Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (GEP-NETs) : A Comprehensive Review of Clinical Trials and Prospective Studies

There is an evolving landscape of systemic combination regimens for patients with advanced well-differentiated gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs). In this review, we provide a comprehensive outline of the existing clinical trials/prospective studies investigating these combinations. PubMed was searched using key relevant terms to identify articles referring to GEP-NETs and combination treatments. No systematic search of the literature or metanalysis of the data was performed, and we focused on the most recent literature results. Primarily, phase 1 and 2 clinical trials were available, with a smaller number of phase 3 trials, reporting results from combination treatments across a wide range of antiproliferative agents. We identified significant variability in the anti-tumor activity of the reported combinations, with occasional promising results, but only a very small number of practice-changing phase 3 clinical trials. Overall, the peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT)-based combinations (with chemotherapy, dual PPRT, and targeted agents) and anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) agent combinations with standard chemotherapy were found to have favorable results and may be worth investigating in future, larger-scale trials. In contrast, the immune-checkpoint inhibitor-based combinations were found to have limited applicability in advanced, well-differentiated GEP-NETs.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Biology - 12(2023), 8 vom: 30. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Diamantopoulos, Leonidas N [VerfasserIn]
Kalligeros, Markos [VerfasserIn]
Halfdanarson, Thorvardur R [VerfasserIn]
Diamantis, Nikolaos [VerfasserIn]
Toumpanakis, Christos [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Carcinoid syndrome
Combination treatment
Journal Article
Neuroendocrine tumors
Review
Somatostatin analogs

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Date Revised 28.08.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/biology12081069

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361251386