Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Exceptional Therapeutic Outcome of Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumor with Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy with Brief Review of Literature

neuroendocrine tumor
NETs are rare, heterogeneous group of neoplasm presented as chronic oncologic disease. Somatostatin analogue is the standard first line systemic therapy for mainly hormone control.

No standard second line systemic treatment is available except everolimus which has no reported complete response.

PRRT is an innovative molecular targeted treatment based on theragnostic concept for well differentiated NETs. We presented here a 63-year-old lady with grade 1 NET of rectum with lymphnodal and liver metastasis.

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