Posted by Kevin Yang ⎜ Feb 25, 2019 ⎜ Industry
The role of concomitant peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) and capecitabine therapy has shown benefit in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. However, data reporting its role in paraganglioma (PGL) patients is lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of combined capecitabine and 177Lu-DOTATATE in malignant PGL patients.
Conclusions: Our data confirm that 177Lu-DOTATATE-capecitabine therapy is effective in achieving an objective response in 28% and symptomatic response in 43% patients. In comparison to published PRRT monotherapy outcomes in PGL, we did not observe any great advantage of concomitant therapy; however, it could be due to under-powered study. We recommend a large randomized trial to prove or disprove the utility of capecitabine as a radiosensitizer for PRRT in PGL patients.
Madhav Prasad Yadav, Sanjana Ballal and Chandrasekhar Bal
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