Department of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan.
Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan.
Neuroendocrinology. 2020;110(11-12):988-993. doi: 10.1159/000505550. Epub 2020 Jan 2.
Platinum-containing regimens are widely used as first-line chemotherapy for unresectable pancreatic neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC), but second-line chemotherapies have yet to be established.
We evaluated the safety and efficacy of everolimus in patients with pancreatic NEC refractory or intolerant to platinum-containing chemotherapy.
This study was a prospective, multicenter, phase II trial in patients with pancreatic NEC after platinum-containing chemotherapy. Everolimus treatment was continued until disease progression or intolerable toxicity was observed. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS).
Participants comprised 25 patients. Median age was 63 years, median PFS was 1.2 months (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.9-3.1 months), median overall survival was 7.5 months (95% CI 3.1-13.5 months), overall response rate was 0%, and disease control rate was 39.1%. Common grade 3/4 adverse events were hyperglycemia (20%), thrombocytopenia (16%), and anemia (16%).
The efficacy of everolimus was limited in patients with unresectable pancreatic NEC.
含铂方案广泛用于不可切除的胰腺神经内分泌癌(NEC)的一线化疗,但二线化疗尚未确立。
我们评估依维莫司在铂类化疗耐药或不耐受的胰腺 NEC 患者中的安全性和疗效。
这是一项铂类化疗后胰腺 NEC 患者的前瞻性、多中心、二期试验。依维莫司治疗持续至疾病进展或出现不可耐受的毒性。主要终点是无进展生存期(PFS)。
参与者包括 25 名患者。中位年龄为 63 岁,中位无进展生存期为 1.2 个月(95%置信区间 [CI] 0.9-3.1 个月),中位总生存期为 7.5 个月(95%CI 3.1-13.5 个月),总缓解率为 0%,疾病控制率为 39.1%。常见的 3/4 级不良事件有高血糖(20%)、血小板减少(16%)和贫血(16%)。
依维莫司在不可切除的胰腺 NEC 患者中的疗效有限。