Trial reportJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2017
Phase III Prospective Randomized Comparison Trial of Depot Octreotide Plus Interferon Alfa-2b Versus Depot Octreotide Plus Bevacizumab in Patients With Advanced Carcinoid Tumors: SWOG S0518.
Trial report in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00569127 (Phase III Prospective Randomized Comparison of Depot Octreotide Plus Interferon Alpha Versus Depot Octreotide Plus Bevacizumab), which is not on this map. Cited by 92 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Phase III Prospective Randomized Comparison of Depot Octreotide Plus Interferon Alpha Versus Depot Octreotide Plus Bevacizumab (NSC #704865) in Advanced, Poor Prognosis Carcinoid Patients
Who cites it
92 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 161 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor-induced hypertension on continued cancer treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2026Pooled it
- Association between increased proteinuria induced by Bevacizumab, Ramucirumab, and Aflibercept and the risk of renal impairment and failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of clinical oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Treatment for gastrointestinal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: a network meta-analysis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Practical recommendations for the management of patients with gastroenteropancreatic and thoracic (carcinoid) neuroendocrine neoplasms in the COVID-19 era.European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) · 2021Guideline
- The underreporting of phase III chemo-therapeutic clinical trial data of older patients with cancer: A systematic review.Journal of geriatric oncology · 2020Pooled it
- Therapeutic Options for Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.JAMA oncology · 2019Pooled it
- Guideline
- Systematic Review of the Role of Targeted Therapy in Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.Neuroendocrinology · 2017Pooled it
- Role of targeted agents in neuroendocrine tumors: Results from a meta-analysis.Cancer biology & therapy · 2016Pooled it
- Axitinib and Long-Acting Octreotide in Advanced Extrapancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase III Clinical Trial (AXINET, GETNE 1107).Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2026Trial
- Cabozantinib plus Atezolizumab in Advanced, Progressive Endocrine Malignancies: A Multicohort, Basket, Phase II Trial (CABATEN/GETNE-T1914).Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025Trial
- Randomized Phase II Trial of Pazopanib Versus Placebo in Patients With Advanced Extrapancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (Alliance A021202).Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2025Trial
- Phase 3 Trial of Cabozantinib to Treat Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors.The New England journal of medicine · 2025Trial
- A phase II study of ramucirumab and somatostatin analog therapy in patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors.The oncologist · 2025Trial
- A phase II study of bevacizumab and temsirolimus in advanced extra-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.Endocrine-related cancer · 2023Trial
- Everolimus with or without bevacizumab in advanced pNET: CALGB 80701 (Alliance).Endocrine-related cancer · 2022Trial
- A phase II study of axitinib in advanced neuroendocrine tumors.Endocrine-related cancer · 2016Trial
- Advanced pulmonary carcinoid managed with chemoimmunotherapy and antiangiogenic agent: A case report and literature review.Molecular and clinical oncology · 2026Article
- Review of Haematological Toxicities in Well-Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumours: A Case Report and Comprehensive Review of the Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Systemic therapy for gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms: current landscape and future directions.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2026Review
32 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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14 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
Purpose Treatment options for neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) remain limited. This trial assessed the progression-free survival (PFS) of bevacizumab or interferon alfa-2b (IFN-α-2b) added to octreotide among patients with advanced NETs. Patients and Methods Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) S0518, a phase III study conducted in a US cooperative group system, enrolled patients with advanced grades 1 and 2 NETs with progressive disease or other poor prognostic features. Patients were randomly assigned to treatment with octreotide LAR 20 mg every 21 days with either bevacizumab 15 mg/kg every 21 days or 5 million units of IFN-α-2b three times per week. The primary end point was centrally assessed PFS. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov as NCT00569127. Results A total of 427 patients was enrolled, of whom 214 were allocated to bevacizumab and 213 to IFN-α-2b. The median PFS by central review was 16.6 months (95% CI, 12.9 to 19.6 months) in the bevacizumab arm and was 15.4 months (95% CI, 9.6 to 18.6 months) in the IFN arm (hazard ratio [HR], 0.93; 95% CI, 0.73 to 1.18; P = .55). By site review, the median PFS times were 15.4 months (95% CI, 12.6 to 17.2 months) for bevacizumab and 10.6 months (95% CI, 8.5 to 14.4 months) for interferon (HR, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.72 to 1.12; P = .33). Time to treatment failure was longer with bevacizumab than with IFN (HR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.58 to 0.89; P = .003). Confirmed radiologic response rates were 12% (95% CI, 8% to 18%) for bevacizumab and 4% (95% CI, 2% to 8%) for IFN. Common adverse events with bevacizumab and octreotide included hypertension (32%), proteinuria (9%), and fatigue (7%); with IFN and octreotide, they included fatigue (27%), neutropenia (12%), and nausea (6%). Conclusion No significant differences in PFS were observed between the bevacizumab and IFN arms, which suggests that these agents have similar antitumor activity among patients with advanced NETs.
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