Prognostic and predictive biomarkers in neuroendocrine tumours

DL Chan, SJ Clarke, CI Diakos, PJ Roach… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Neuroendocrine tumours are extremely heterogeneous malignancies. Despite marked
heterogeneity in clinical course and prognosis, few biomarkers exist to help predict …

[HTML][HTML] Tumour heterogeneity and the consequent practical challenges in the management of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms

I Reccia, M Pai, J Kumar, D Spalding, A Frilling - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tumour heterogeneity is a common phenomenon in neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs)
and a significant cause of treatment failure and disease progression. Genetic and epigenetic …

Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma: predictors and pitfalls

CM Beukhof, T Brabander, FH van Nederveen… - BMC cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background For progressive metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), the available
treatment options with tyrosine kinase inhibitors result in grade 3–4 adverse events in a …

Inferior outcome of neuroendocrine tumor patients negative on somatostatin receptor imaging

J Refardt, WT Zandee, T Brabander… - Endocrine-related …, 2020 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Sufficient expression of somatostatin receptor (SSTR) in well-differentiated neuroendocrine
tumours (NETs) is crucial for treatment with somatostatin analogues (SSAs) and peptide …

Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor diagnosis: DOTATATE PET/CT

A Kandathil, RM Subramaniam - PET clinics, 2023 - pet.theclinics.com
Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) arise in secretory cells of the diffuse neuroendocrine
system, most commonly involving the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and pancreas. NENs include …

Somatostatin receptor expression is associated with metastasis and patient outcome in pulmonary carcinoid tumors

T Vesterinen, H Leijon, H Mustonen… - The Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Context Pulmonary carcinoids (PCs) belong to neuroendocrine tumors that often
overexpress somatostatin receptors (SSTRs). This overexpression provides a molecular …

Closing the disparity in pancreatic cancer outcomes: a closer look at nonmodifiable factors and their potential use in treatment

AD Vick, DN Hery, SF Markowiak, FC Brunicardi - Pancreas, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objectives African Americans (AAs) have disproportionately higher incidence and lower
survival rates from pancreatic cancer compared with whites. Historically, this disparity has …

Correlation of Somatostatin Receptor 1–5 Expression, [68Ga]Ga-DOTANOC, [18F]F-FDG PET/CT and Clinical Outcome in a Prospective Cohort of Pancreatic …

S Majala, T Vesterinen, H Seppänen, H Mustonen… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The need for prognostic and predictive biomarkers in pancreatic
neuroendocrine neoplasms (PNENs) is great. Overexpression of somatostatin receptors …

Digital quantification of somatostatin receptor subtype 2a immunostaining: a validation study

C Campana, PM van Koetsveld… - European Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Objective The aim of this study was to develop an open-source and reproducible digital
quantitative analysis (DIA) of somatostatin receptor subtype 2a (SST2) staining in formalin …

Expression of somatostatin receptors 2 and 5 in circulating tumour cells from patients with neuroendocrine tumours

A Childs, C Vesely, L Ensell, H Lowe, TV Luong… - British journal of …, 2016 - nature.com
Background: Neuroendocrine tumours (NET) overexpress somatostatin receptors (SSTR)
that can be targeted for therapy. Somatostatin receptor expression is routinely measured by …