Delayed Response (Partial Remission) 3 Years After Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy in a Patient Participating in the NETTER-1 Trial

Clin Nucl Med. 2019 Mar;44(3):223-226. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002456.

Abstract

Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with radiolabeled somatostatin analogues has been shown to be highly efficacious concerning progression-free survival and response rates in patients with advanced, progressive, well-differentiated, somatostatin-receptor-positive neuroendocrine neoplasm. We report here delayed response of a midgut neuroendocrine neoplasm patient, who had stable disease after 4 cycles of PRRT and over a long period of 5 restaging admissions with excellent quality of life (full working hours), persisting for 3 years of follow-up, and presented as further partial remission according to both Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors and EORTC criteria, respectively, 36 months after the last PRRT cycle.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Male
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / diagnostic imaging
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / pathology
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / radiotherapy*
  • Octreotide / therapeutic use*
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
  • Radiopharmaceuticals / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Octreotide