First experience using peptide receptor radionuclide therapy in a patient with urothelial carcinoma

Clin Nucl Med. 2013 Oct;38(10):e404-6. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318279edfc.

Abstract

A 78-year-old man with urothelial carcinoma metastasis after surgical resection of the right kidney, part of the ureter, and urinary bladder in May 2003 and 3 cycles of chemotherapy with cisplatin-gemcitabine was referred for peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT). Somatostatin-receptor profile was assessed by 68Ga-labeled lanreotide PET, and PRRT was performed using 3738 MBq (101 mCi) of 90Y-DOTA-lanreotide. Because of adequate PRRT response confirmed with MRI and 18F-FDG PET, surgical resection of the solitary cervical metastasis was feasible. Treatment was well tolerated, and the patient remains in complete remission from his urothelial carcinoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Peptides, Cyclic / therapeutic use
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Receptors, Peptide / therapeutic use*
  • Somatostatin / analogs & derivatives
  • Somatostatin / therapeutic use
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / drug therapy*

Substances

  • Peptides, Cyclic
  • Receptors, Peptide
  • lanreotide
  • Somatostatin